Still Chaos

I know I haven’t posted in a while, but we are still living in chaos from the flood and  to post in chaos doesn’t really go well with me.

The floors are back down but nothing is back in its place.

We have had tons of offers to help which I want to accept, I just don’t even know what to tell people to do…everything needs to be done and I know when people help they need direction and I don’t even have it in me to give that direction lately.

It will get better – it always does.

WOW – this post sounds really down – we really aren’t down about it.  We are just doing what we need to do to get through this valley.

 

I might break?!?!

This might be it

This might be the thing that throws me over the edge

I won't claim to be the most organized person, but this chaos not the way I roll.

Eric is in the process 

tearing out all the floors in the house because they're all wet

Wet = no good

I am tired, he is exhausted and we are all getting cranky

Seriously?!?!

We almost made it through October with nothing major happening…ALMOST!

We have crazy rain Wednesday night…I mean crazy.  I think our area ended up with 8 inches in a few hours.

A little before 10:00 I hear Eric saying, F*CK, F*CK, F*CK

Now 2 things here really jolted me out of bed:

-          For a man for almost never curses to be running from room to room yelling F*CK over and over again in his white t-shirt and boxers (no, honey, I could leave that part out because it makes me laugh even sitting here writing this!)

-          And two him yelling it is coming in everywhere

I had to get up to see what in the world was actually happening.

A flood was happening – in our kitchen, dining room, bedroom, bathroom and Ian’s room.

Eric whipped out the shop vac and started sucking up water as fast as he could.

I got every towel, sheet, and piece of clothing out of the chest of drawers and random pieces from the closet and put those at the edge of the pool hoping the barrier would stop it from flowing elsewhere.

So Eric kept working with the shop vac and got the first round pretty much cleaned up.

THEN round 2 hit.

This time I was of no help because I was slipping all over

 

So Eric was a one man show this go around.

He was bailing water from the area until he puked (I told him it was like a cross fit work out - I don't think he thought I was funny in least bit) then went back to vacuuming, back to bailing/puking and back and forth until it all stopped.

AND we don't have flood insurance (why in the world would we need it?, BUT all the work he did saved us from major damage.

We are now in process of taking up the floor to let it dry out and then will lay it back down like we (Eric) did in the kitchen.
We did order a pod to try to organize this mess so we don't go cray cray - THAT would be a good thing.