This entry is about 4 months late, but it is a great story
from our first year of marriage so it must be blogged about. I guess I should
be careful what I wish for, because wishes come true and not always in the way
that you want. I was excited to start writing about my life so that I could
notice all the blog worthy things that happen in my life, and well the day
after I started my blog our apartment roof collapsed and flooded our apartment.
Now, if that is not blog worthy I don’t know what is! It took me awhile to post
these pictures, because my computer was a victim of the flood, but after a good
wash and rice bath it is up and kicking.
The flooding happened because the hose connected to the
toilet of the upstairs apartment got disconnected and the water ran down the
walls into our roof. The water leaked from about 7am till 2pm because no one
was home upstairs. Devin and I were both gone for the day and did not return
till we got a call from our land lady at about 8pm that night. Apparently our
fire alarm was going off all day, but the police had a hard time locating the
alarm because it was bouncing off the buildings around the apartment complex.
The police eventually found where the alarm was coming from and went in through
the bedroom window and walked into the living room to find the roof caved in.
That night we had to move all our furniture that was in the
living room into either the kitchen or the bedroom, so basically we could not
stay there. Eventually the carpet was ripped up and the whole actually got
bigger because of all the water damage. Luckily, none of our stuff was completely
ruined because we were lacking in renters insurance. Word to the wise to all
those renting an apartment, renters insurance is your best friend because you
never know when your upstairs neighbor’s toilet will become disconnected and
flood your apartment.
Well, a month went by and the apartment still was not fixed,
so Devin and I decided to scrap up our savings and rent a new apartment. We had
to camp out in our broken apartment for a day or two while we packed up and
moved. We felt like a homeless couple living in a rundown shack. In the end we
moved to a very nice two bedroom apartment that did not have a giant hole in
the roof.
