N2CHX
01-24-2011, 07:48 AM
So I dropped my son's friend off and stayed and chatted with his Dad for a while. Came home, made dinner, we sat at the breakfast nook and watched some relatively clean stand-up on CS, then went upstairs to our room and watched another show with the kids on Netflix.
Put the kids to bed and then we went to bed around 11:30. It was about -15F last night so I made sure all the sinks had a little drip going. D woke up at about 2 and yelled "What the HELL is THAT?"
From the nursery room off our bedroom, we heard a rushing sound. FUCK! Room is flooded. Pipe burst. The bathroom next to it is closed because it's being renovated. I thought I had shut off all the water to it but apparently I hadn't.
Came downstairs to find Niagara Falls in the kitchen. Went to the basement to shut off the water and found Niagara Falls in the basement. I frantically started shutting off water. Got it shut off, then noticed as I was cleaning up the mess that it was getting damn cold in the house. The furnace stopped working. The BRAND NEW $10,000 furnace! Water had run into one of the floor vents so I was sure the furnace had been damaged by the water at that point.
D came down to the basement while I was trying to figure the furnace out and I just leaned on him and cried my eyes out. Then I had a realization. In my half-awake, frantic state, I might have shut off a gas valve by accident. Sure enough, I had. Cranked one valve back on and the furnace came back to life. Was VERY thankful for that anyway.
Mopped up as much as I could, turned the oven on 500 degrees and closed the kitchen doors so it would dry out from the oven heat. Then D and I went up to the 3rd floor and smoked two HUGE doobs and went back to bed.
The cats knew something was amiss so they started going apeshit about 4 AM and wouldn't stop. Came down this morning to assess the damage and it's minimal. Everything is almost dried already and there are some mineral stains on the wood and that's it. The brunt of the damage was to D's stuff stored in the nursery room.
But what a fucking night..... :ugh:
Put the kids to bed and then we went to bed around 11:30. It was about -15F last night so I made sure all the sinks had a little drip going. D woke up at about 2 and yelled "What the HELL is THAT?"
From the nursery room off our bedroom, we heard a rushing sound. FUCK! Room is flooded. Pipe burst. The bathroom next to it is closed because it's being renovated. I thought I had shut off all the water to it but apparently I hadn't.
Came downstairs to find Niagara Falls in the kitchen. Went to the basement to shut off the water and found Niagara Falls in the basement. I frantically started shutting off water. Got it shut off, then noticed as I was cleaning up the mess that it was getting damn cold in the house. The furnace stopped working. The BRAND NEW $10,000 furnace! Water had run into one of the floor vents so I was sure the furnace had been damaged by the water at that point.
D came down to the basement while I was trying to figure the furnace out and I just leaned on him and cried my eyes out. Then I had a realization. In my half-awake, frantic state, I might have shut off a gas valve by accident. Sure enough, I had. Cranked one valve back on and the furnace came back to life. Was VERY thankful for that anyway.
Mopped up as much as I could, turned the oven on 500 degrees and closed the kitchen doors so it would dry out from the oven heat. Then D and I went up to the 3rd floor and smoked two HUGE doobs and went back to bed.
The cats knew something was amiss so they started going apeshit about 4 AM and wouldn't stop. Came down this morning to assess the damage and it's minimal. Everything is almost dried already and there are some mineral stains on the wood and that's it. The brunt of the damage was to D's stuff stored in the nursery room.
But what a fucking night..... :ugh: