The O'Donnell Clan: March 15

Who knew a simple shower could lead to this? I chose to go in later to work than usual so, while Mark was taking the kids to school, I took a quick shower. While I was drying my hair, he came in and said the downstairs was flooded. Water was everywhere - coming out of light fixtures, air vents, floor was covered in water, bubbles were expanding on the ceiling, shelving in the pantry had collapsed, etc. While I called our flood company, he shut off the water and started damage control. Within ten minutes Accutek was here and shortly thereafter cabinets were emptied, ovens removed, carpet pulled back as leaked through dining room wall, wallboard removed, then discovered the upstairs shower wall and surrounding carpet and walls were wet as well. So the moving of all my stuff in the end of our closet began (with a few remarks from the guys about it resembling Imelda's closet ...). Because of the dryers we had to move Newton's tank into the dining room so that was no small job. Turns out the neck of the shower broke off inside the wall while it was under pressure.

The garage is now full of table, chairs, all china cabinet and kitchen cabinet contents, living room has the china cabinet and mess in it - it looks like a war zone. Guess that bathroom remodel we were putting off will now be happening!

Here are a few pictures from today ...

I will say that the Behr kitchen paint was amazing as it was almost like a cartoon as it just kept filling up and the paint kept expanding with it!!