Oh the joys of buying an old house... FLOOD!

Last week we had a ton of fun at our local street festival, only to come home to a water heater that went out and had been continuously dumping hot water all over our basement. Lovely. We got it turned off and as much water sucked out with our shop vac (thank you for the Christmas gift honey!) and the next day the disaster relief people showed up and set up a dehumidifier and 6 fans that proceeded to create a wind tunnel in our basement for the next 4 days.

It's amazing what we've learned through all of this:

Lesson 1 ~ Carpet in the family room and vinyl in the storage room now needs to be replaced

Lesson 2 ~ $1000 homeowners insurance deductible sounds great to reduce your monthly premium but hurts when you have to make a claim

Lesson 3 ~ Homeowners insurance won't cover a broken down water heater but will cover the damages it causes

Lesson 4 ~ Home warrantee that came with the house won't cover damages but will cover a new water heater

Lesson 5 ~ Whoever installed the old water heater had no clue what they were doing and didn't do it up to code so we have had carbon monoxide leaking into our home every time the water heater fired up. That's right, the DEADLY poisonous carbon monoxide.

So, all in all, this was a HUGE blessing that we had this flood. We now have a working water heater that is SAFE and won't cause serious harm or DEATH. We are also picking out new flooring for our basement and we get to have the "cat" smell GONE! Yay!

I'm tired. :-)