Cindy's Cerebral Seepage: Summer highlight recap part 1

Here is what hours of water running into your house looks like

In May, a valve stuck on our front loading washing machine. Water ran out of the machine and flooded our home. We left home at about 7:30 a.m. I received a phone call from Bob at about 2:30 saying that our daughter had come over to our home to fax something. When she pulled up in the drive, she called Bob and told him that there was water coming out from the garage door and running down the drive. She opened the garage door and there was water in the garage. She and Bob thought that one of the salt water fish tank water holding tanks that are in the garage had sprung a leak. No biggie. Daughter opened the door leading from the garage into the laundry room and a waterfall came pouring down the step...all over her shoes. She stepped into the laundry room and stepped into a mini lake. The carpet in the hallway right outside the laundry room was completely soaked. Water gushed over our feet. All told, our laundry room, hallway, office, guest bedroom number one, guest bedroom number 2, guest bathroom and the guest dressing area were flooded. We were so incredibly lucky in that there is a tiny dip in the long hallway leading to our living room which created a natural dam effect. None of the water got into the living room or dining room. The water extraction company spent 4 hours here sucking all the water possible out of the carpet and unloading furniture and boxes into the dry part of the house. They left and left us with big fans blowing air under the carpet in an effort to save the carpet. Most homes use the fans a day or two, we wound up with them for over a week. The musty, moldy smell in our home was horrible. The whole process to resore our home took 6 weeks. We still have some stuff in the garage and Bob is still having to park in the drive, but the new carpet, flooring and paint is wonderful. Now I am trying to figure out how to get new carpet n the rest of our house.