The Flood

We were very excited to come home the day after Thanksgiving and put up our Christmas tree and listen to Christmas music and make yummy treats. We made it home in good time, and with great weather. We walked into our house and immediately realized something was wrong. We were standing in about 2 inches of water and could hear water gushing in our kitchen. Davie ran into the kitchen to find rapidly spraying out from under our kitchen sink. Our pipes under the sink are on an exterior wall and it had gotten so cold the night before that one froze and burst in the morning. We rushed the kids upstairs and then lost it. I started crying, thinking we would not be able to live in our house ever again. Davie started soaking up water with towels. ( BTW, this was covering our entire downstairs) I called my dad to ask for advice. Then Davie called our insurance. That calmed us down a lot, our insurance agent was great and immediately starting calling people to come and help us.

An extraction crew showed up shortly after and began tearing our place apart. They had to tear our my kitchen cabinets, rip up our carpet, pull off our baseboards, and lift all our furniture onto blocks to dry. Then they brought in huge fans and starting drying things up. After assessing the damage they said it would be 2-3 weeks before our place was back to normal, possibly longer.

Our insurance put us up in a hotel nearby for a few nights until we could figure out what we were going to do while waiting. The kids loved and hated the hotel. They loved the pool, and the free breakfast, but hated being cooped up and not having any other normal meals. We decided it would be best for the kids and I to stay at my dads until our place was put back together. Davie had to stay in Logan to finish up his last week of school and his finals. It was so hard to be apart, but he was able to come visit us twice and help us when it was time to come back home.

Our insurance really came through for us and got our place finished and all back to normal in just under 2 weeks. We were so excited to go home and prepare for Christmas, and Davie was so awesome and completely cleaned and organized our whole house! It looked better than it ever has!