Water, water everywhere...
My parents are in town this weekend for my (step)cousin's wedding, which we went to today. Very nice ceremony and reception. So last night, we decided to go to dinner. Left Tripps' around 8:45, hoping to catch some of the 3rd period of the 'Canes-Habs game. However, when I opened the door to my apartment, a cloud of steam drifted out. Not Good. Went inside to find more steam clouds, and a large amount of water issuing forth from the general area of my washing machine, already having soaked a big patch of carpet and encroaching on computers and furniture in the bedroom. I didn't see an obvious shutoff anywhere, so I called maintenance, and got a voice mailbox. Great. Thankfully, it must have paged someone, because I got a call back in a couple of minutes. He told me there had to be a shutoff, and after going back and forth for a few minutes, we figured it was probably behind the unit (stacked washer/dryer). So the only solution was to try to pull it out of the closet, which was not easy considering we were trying to go from tile over a lip to carpet, with a mostly wet unit. It was a good thing Dad was there because I most certainly wouldn't have been able to get it out myself; after several minutes of wrangling, we got it far out enough that it could be tilted forward and I could climb over the back to get to the shutoff valve. Turns out the hot water feed hose had burst and was spraying water off the back wall of the closet, which explained the odd places it had reached and the original inability to find the leak. The fun part of this was that neither the washer nor the dryer were on when I left; but at least it let go then, and not when I was at work, or today at the wedding, in which case it likely would have flooded my entire apartment and damaged computers, furniture, and other stuff.
In this case the damage was confined to a large patch of soaked carpet, and standing water on my already somewhat-weak bathroom floor. Once I relayed to him that the worst was over, the maintenance guy sent out a carpet guy, who showed up and sucked up the excess water, ran some sort of steam cleaner over the mess, and then left behind two giant fans (one blowing in between the carpet and pad, and one on top of a different section of carpet) with the instructions to leave them running until Monday. So it is both loud and drafty right now. Good thing I am not a light sleeper, but with the racket it took me a while to fall asleep.
So on Monday, the fans should disappear, and maintenance is going to come and assess the damage. I know the hot water line needs replacement, the carpet and pad are kind of torn up where we had to wrestle the washer out of the closet, and the door mount is rather worse for the wear. I don't know if the washer itself is damaged or not, or if the carpet will need replacement. We'll see. But all things considered, like I said, I'm lucky that it wasn't any worse.
On a better note, go Mario Williams. #1 overall. And Manny at #22, and McCargo at #26? When was the last time (if ever) that State had 3 players in the first round? Honestly, I'm not 100% sure why the Texans took him first overall, rather than taking Bush and trying to work a trade (or just trading the pick), but...good for him. He'll have a lot of doubters to prove wrong, but maybe that'll be motivation. No NCSU people in round 2 or 3...hope to see Tulloch, Hudson, and Williams taken tomorrow. It'd be nice to see Brian Clark go too, but no one seems to have him in their predictions.
Also. Go 'Canes. I noticed later that the game, which I obviously didn't see the end of, ended 3-2 'Canes. Tomorrow night, back at the ESA, game 5...can we get a home win? I hope so. And the sad fate of the Rangers...swept by their arch-rival Devils. Ouch. That sucks. Carolina will have better luck, because I want to see them smack down the Devils in round 2...as long as we take care of Montreal first.
In this case the damage was confined to a large patch of soaked carpet, and standing water on my already somewhat-weak bathroom floor. Once I relayed to him that the worst was over, the maintenance guy sent out a carpet guy, who showed up and sucked up the excess water, ran some sort of steam cleaner over the mess, and then left behind two giant fans (one blowing in between the carpet and pad, and one on top of a different section of carpet) with the instructions to leave them running until Monday. So it is both loud and drafty right now. Good thing I am not a light sleeper, but with the racket it took me a while to fall asleep.
So on Monday, the fans should disappear, and maintenance is going to come and assess the damage. I know the hot water line needs replacement, the carpet and pad are kind of torn up where we had to wrestle the washer out of the closet, and the door mount is rather worse for the wear. I don't know if the washer itself is damaged or not, or if the carpet will need replacement. We'll see. But all things considered, like I said, I'm lucky that it wasn't any worse.
On a better note, go Mario Williams. #1 overall. And Manny at #22, and McCargo at #26? When was the last time (if ever) that State had 3 players in the first round? Honestly, I'm not 100% sure why the Texans took him first overall, rather than taking Bush and trying to work a trade (or just trading the pick), but...good for him. He'll have a lot of doubters to prove wrong, but maybe that'll be motivation. No NCSU people in round 2 or 3...hope to see Tulloch, Hudson, and Williams taken tomorrow. It'd be nice to see Brian Clark go too, but no one seems to have him in their predictions.
Also. Go 'Canes. I noticed later that the game, which I obviously didn't see the end of, ended 3-2 'Canes. Tomorrow night, back at the ESA, game 5...can we get a home win? I hope so. And the sad fate of the Rangers...swept by their arch-rival Devils. Ouch. That sucks. Carolina will have better luck, because I want to see them smack down the Devils in round 2...as long as we take care of Montreal first.