Damp drama
So yesterday the heavens opened again – fortunately during daylight, fortunately while we were all at home. The storm was raging away, Adam was getting very excited about the thunder (big relief – he’s not showing any signs of being scared of it after the other morning), then the power went out 
. John checked the circuit breaker – the main household one had flipped, and wouldn’t stay on. We ran round turning things off (television, cooker, microwave etc) , but it still wouldn’t stay on. Then we realised that the velux window was leaking, and as we mopped up the worst of the flood from that I found the root of the power problem – water was pouring in through the light switch in our living room extension . Score another point for using washable nappies – in fact score another 5 points for using terry squares – and hey a few more for being disorganised so-n-sos who hadn’t put them away, so there was a big pile of clean absorbant cloths right to hand 
Adam was wonderful – after a few comments along the lines of “I don’t think God likes our house”, he then started telling Jesus all about it “Jesus, we’ve got a big problem here – make it stop.” Which it did after a bit – there’s no lasting damage, although we’ve not tested the lighting circuit for the downstairs at the back of the house yet – we want to give it a few days to dry out.
Still, it was exciting out in the road – it was flooded to a depth of at least 6 inches – nearly over the top of Adam’s wellies!
It was exciting, it was a bit worrying, it is a bit of a pain having to rely on candles in the living room, but it’s only the tiniest, teeniest fraction of what people from New Orleans (and Bangladesh, and China) are going through.
one comment:
Yay for terry nappies. I had this smug feeling whenever I used to see them on the washing line. It gave me a real thrill! Yes I’m easily pleased
Sorry about the flood though, must have been worrying when you had the power problems and lots of water about.
Tracy () (link) - 12 September '05 - 16:44
