Clara woke up at 1:30 am on Sept 25th and had soaked through her pj's. She did not have any pj's in her drawer. I contemplated putting her in a onesie, but decided she should have pj's instead. I walked down to the laundry room to retrieve a clean pair and "squish". Our carpet was soaked. I was pretty petrified, because I didn't know where the water was coming from and it was raining sheets outside. Turns out our sump pump stopped running.
We quickly got Clara all situated and then, Brad and hauled everything thing we could out into the garage it took us until 6 am to do so.
It took us quite some time to get everything that was ruined hauled out. Not only did we have to deal with our own mess, but Brad had to worry about his office, too. I'll tell you I have definitely learned through this all that we live in the best neighborhood and have such caring friends and neighbors. I don't know what we would have done without them. Neighbors brought us food, helped us rip out carpet and padding, borrowed us fans and hauled out soaking wet carpet and padding. They were truly amazing!
This is what we were left with.
It took the city FOREVER to pick up our pile of flood damage goods. But, it was interesting to watch the process out the window when they finally did. Laken was upset by it, because a doll Terry Kujawa gave her got ruined and was hauled away.
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