I'm going to use some of David's words to tell this story...I'm in DC and got an email from him today (and talked to him shortly after) and found out the following:
"So, I discovered this morning that the basement storage room flooded. The carpet is completely soaked, and I'm moving stuff out of the room now. We'll have to tear out all the carpet and padding, and probably strip the walls down to the studs... they'll need to be painted with that mold-retardant paint after they've air dried sufficiently."
When I spoke to him late this evening, he had already moved everything out of the storage room and had torn up the carpet and carpet pad. He basically had to work all day on this and just sounded exhausted when we talked. I feel bad that I wasn't there to help out. We did have some casualties of the water, including 2 Obama posters we had bought and were sitting down there waiting for us to do something with them.
We are pretty sure we know the cause...we had a downspout that didn't have a tight connection and was spilling water out of it over the top and therefore all around one corner of our house. David had tried to fix it before we left, but it didn't work and we had to leave for our trip before we could try something different. pooh! It sounds like money we might have used for a vacation this summer may have to be diverted to fixing the basement and the leak. =-(
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That sucks, Liz! Let me know if you need any manual labor, and Brian and I can come over and help out!
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