When it rains, it pours...

This lovely little chain of storms we were so looking forward to has ruined our week. Apparently there was a big hole between our house foundation and our basement that was directly under one of the gutter pukers (what do you call those things? Gutter drains? Spouts? I don't know. But it looked like it was puking rain water, mud, and leaves) so the big storm on Wednesday filled up our basement with 9 inches or so of muddy water. Just tall enough to reach our water heater pilot making hot showers a thing of the past for us. Ugh! Luckily Jerod and Karen (and other friends of course) offered up their facilities to us, and our wonderful neighbors Dave and Christi came over with a sump pump to help us drain it out. Jeff woke up early this morning to intercept the sandbag shipment Home Depot was expecting and plugged up the hole as best as he could. Brian and Gina are hopefully getting a service person out here today to look at the water heater, and have plans to buy a new tankless system to replace it if need be. Good times...

Dave and his awesome LED headlamps surveying the mess... That muddy hose being tracked through the house did not make Liv happy.

So we (the boys) started filling up a bucket with the sludge instead to carry it outside. We didn't know where to dump the liquidy mud so Jeff just dumped it in the dirt next to our sidewalk. It looked like a T-Rex came and had diarrhea all over our front yard.

Strong Jeffy. He did a lot of work yesterday and today. TCB, takin' care of business!

My positive perspective is starting to fade. It's an inverse relationship- my mood goes down as my lack of showering increases. Fingers crossed this gets taken care of soon...

Btw- for anyone worried- we got our house alarm system set up. With motion detectors and the works! Take that crack addicts!