Here in Florida (I don't know if it's all over the state, or just in the two cities where we have lived) there is a nice little rainfall once a day during the summer and some of the fall. It's nice- it kind of cuts the heat when it's summer. And, who am I kidding, in the "fall" too.
So we've been getting into the time where we have several days straight of just sunshine. No clouds, not even some drizzle. And the wind has picked up a little, too, so it's been cooler AND sunnier. What niceness, no?
Then! DUM DUM DUMMMM
Friday morning, it was raining when we woke up, and rained off and on all day. And then Satuday hit. We woke up to some wind. I took Bear out for his morning walk and fed him, letting Tommy enjoy a day of sleeping in. The sky went from cloudy to dark very quickly, wind picking up and rain starting and whatnot. Tommy had an appointment for a haircut at 12:30, and Ever After came on at 12, so we were both happy. Halfway through the movie, Bear and I were realizing that the rain was coming down way too... hard? Fast? A lot? Tommy showed up, hair a little shorter, saying that he was almost blown off the road from the crazy wind and rain.
It rained as much as it rained in "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" from 1977, which is an excellent movie.
So "the rain rain rain came down down down" and we tried to sneak Bear out to potty as often as we could. Long day of nothing but rain.
Tommy went to go get Five Guys as a special dinner treat, and I took a shower (yeah.... I put off bathing as long as possible... I'm a pretty gross person). During my shower, the power went out. We lit a bunch of candles, and had a nice dinner, and brought out Phase Ten. After a while, we noticed all those candles keeping us well lit were also putting off a lot of heat. We started blowing out candles and tried to keep only the essentials. Tommy decided to open the garage door manually, keep it propped open with a large box, and the open the house door to the garage to let some air in. It helped a little. We then decided to practice some songs to distract us from the warmth and the loud storm. Then Tommy decided he was just too uncomfortable- we were going for a drive in the car and were going to blast the AC, dang it! (we're delicate... Bear, too.)
Riding around, we discovered that a very small area was without power, only a few streets north of us and maybe one street south. But, that meant that they could fix ours quickly, right?
After a little while, the rain became just too dangerous to drive in, so we turned back. Tommy lifted the garage door with his he-man strength so we could get the car in and wouldn't have to worry about it losing a window, etc.
Finally, hours later, the power came back on with a -SURGE- and went right back off. And we smelled something burning. A couple of moments later, the power came on to stay, but not in the living room, and not in our bathroom. Random, right? We're still waiting to find out what was fried.
I went to the bedroom to put some things in my bedside table since I could see in there again, and when I stepped beside it, my foot sunk into water. YUP.
Momentary Catch-You-Up: when we first visited the house, there was some damage on the carpet in the bedroom. it was coming away from the wall and was lose and stained. they told us a sprinkler head had broken, and had pumped water into the house. but, not to worry, that sprinkler was fixed. so we positioned our furniture over the worst parts of the carpet, by the window.
SO guess where the water had seeped into the house?? Right under the furniture.
Over the next hour or so, we soaked up water with beach towels, pulled back the carpet, got out our only tiny fan, and moved furniture. We made the twin beds in the guest room into a king-sized bed (like we did for the Turners when they came to stay!) and hunkered down for the night.
Today is Sunday. We went to church (which was wonderful- encouraged us WHILE it spurred us on towards holiness), and between that and lunch, we dropped by the house to let Bear out for a moment. I opened the door to our room, and got hit by a wall of STINK. All I could think of was all the little smelly particles soaking into our comforter, our clothes, our furniture, our mattress.... Yuck.
On the way home from lunch, our realtor called, saying the home owners were sending an electric guy and carpet guys to the house tomorrow. When we got home, we took apart our bed and put the pieces into our front room (it has a desk and books, so we sometimes called it 'the office' when we're feeling fancy). We pulled the carpet further back, found more puddles of water, and closed off the room.
So, we will see what the guys say tomorrow!
It's been kind of like a weird adventure. Things are much more fun when you're with the love of your life. We decided this is the first time we are glad we don't own this house.
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