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Remember the day's blessings, forget the day's troubles

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Massive Rain Storm

We have had a massive rain storm the last few days. It started on Monday and rained non-stop for two days. Monday afternoon the kids were playing in the front room and the ceiling started to leak from the skylight. Our landlord told us she has had some problems with this before and to watch it. So I contacted her to let her know it had started to leak. She said she would get her dad to come look at it and see what needed to be done. The rain didn't stop so her father was not able to make it over to look at it. As the day went on the leak got worse. I was running out of buckets to catch the water in. We moved the couches so they wouldn't be damaged. By the end of the day on monday we had all the furniture moved out of the front room. The rain kept going on Tuesday and the leak continued to worsen. We didn't really know what to do other than to keep moving things out of the way. Our landlords father came over on Tuesday afternoon, and said he would be back on Wednesday to patch the leak and try to recover what he could of the roof. He said it looked like it would all need to be replaced. By the time we went to bed Tuesday night, things were very soggy. The walls were starting to bubble the paint was peeling, the ceiling was sagging. It didn't look good! When Erick got home that night, he said it would be a good idea move the things out of the kitchen and dining room as well. We moved as much as we would upstairs into the kids room. We all slept together in our bed. Thank goodness for king size beds!!! It was a good thing we were all in there together, because at about 3:30 am the loudest sound you have ever heard came from downstairs. The whole roof had collapsed. It was so loud, the kids woke up scared. Erick went down to see what all had happened. He came back up and said it was the whole roof. The backside of our house is a vaulted ceiling, so it didn't effect the upstairs, but he said it could work its way forward, so we needed to get out. We called our landlords father and went to their home for the rest of the night. In the morning we came over to begin the work. They construction guys were there before we got there and had already started to pull things out and try to repair the damage. Here is a picture of what they have pulled out.....
APRIL FOOLS!!!!!!!!!

4 comments:

Staci Scott said...

LESLIE!!!!!!

You had me! Great Story, but I'm glad it didn't really happen. I've learned my lesson, I won't be fooled again today. Thanks! Love ya anyway, Staci

Kam and Jodie said...

OMG, You had me going! So glad it didn't happen, but kinda mad I fell for it. :) Love ya!

¨*:·.TIFF.·:*¨ said...

I MY HECK!!!! you dork, I totally fell for that. I was so freakin' scared for you guys. ha ha, i'm a sucka

Jason and Laura Roe said...

You are such a dork! But gosh I love ya anyway!!! That took me forever to read and you know me I usually skip long stories but it was really interesting....you could write books:) Ha ha ha! By the way thanks so much for adding my button, you are soo nice! I miss you guys tons but I love looking at your blog! I will try and update mine soon!