Just a quick note that we might be a bit out of the loop over the next little while. The remnants of tropical storm Fay brought lots of much needed rain, but also some destruction here thanks to our crappy roof. We’ve got leaks in two rooms and a shelf fell down in the office because the drywall was waterlogged, destroying several statues and other knicknacks, damaging our printer, and smashing the glass of the rock box, among other things. The water is seeping under the wall to the living room so the rug is soaked and we had to disconnect the computer, stereo, and anything else electrical connected to that shared wall.
I’ve got the router ‘high and dry’ and plugged in but we’ve also been having issues with the FrankenDell (our ancient, built-from-junk-parts laptop) so we may be ‘sans Internet’ for a few days. Right now I can still revive it by taking out the battery, ram, and other removables, holding down the power button a while, then putting it all back together, but obviously there is a short somewhere and it’s only a matter of time before it becomes a paperweight.
Our landlord is sending roofers out to assess the damage and get the leaks fixed, and we’ll see where it goes from there… I won’t deny that we are very worried about a mold issue (we already had problems with that here) from the waterlogged drywall, carpet, and subflooring, and thinking back to the house we had to evacuate in Hendersonville, from which my lungs never did recover. But we’ll take it one step at a time and see what happens.
In spite of the small scale disaster it caused inside our house, we’re still very grateful for the rainfall. The area needed it very, very, badly and we probably still need a lot more rain to catch up.
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