For most of January, we were living in a horrible inversion! NO sun and cold weather can really get to you.. SO we planned on going to McCall to see the parade and winter carnival snow sculptures.
The night before, I had gone to a friends house to do a little craft night... I called the girls at 8:05 pm saying I was on my way home... As I am pulling onto our street, the girls called and all I hear is screaming... as I open the garage, they are all standing at the door and they all look pale and scared to death... I am thinking... who is hurt? who is bleeding? what is going on?
The pipe connection in the upstairs bathroom, that we remodeled a few years ago, came off, and water was spraying everywhere. It sounded like the tub was on full blast, only under the sink. Braelyn was upstairs getting ready to brush her teeth, when it happened, called for Kara who came up stairs quick. It took her a little bit to figure it out, and that is when she called me.
Because the girls were in such a panic, that put me in a panic....
(I now realize I may not be so calm in an emergency situation. )
I quickly called Drew, at work. Luckily he is the one that answered the phone and all he could hear was this crazy lady saying something about water, where do I turn it off, girls screaming in the background... and he his thinking this crazy lady needs to hang up and call 911..
He then realizes it is me, as I am running down the stairs to the crawl space to turn of the water... then we realize I can just turn off the valve that is under the sink. So I run back upstairs and quickly turn the water off...
I began finding every towel there was mopping up what I could and throwing the towels into the tub... The girls then come running upstairs screaming again, this time because water is coming out of one of the light fixtures! HAAAA...
Drew is on his way, but it seems like forever...
so we find more towels and start mopping up the kitchen.
So, the guys came, laid out a tarp, but decided not to rip up the ceiling, (which they should have)... but decided we were okay, and left... SO I calmed the kids and got them to bed... When Drew got home Saturday morning, the house smelled of wet sheet rock... and as we looked at the ceiling together we noticed a seam that was really wet, and ready to drip.... So Drew digs in... and we have water pouring out of the ceiling....
We cleaned up enough, and loaded the car and headed to McCall to see the sun and snow with Pat and Steve.. trying not to think of our mess the whole day...
anyway...
We realized that the water had gone under the vanity and in the heat vent pipe... filling that up, then leaking and soaking the insulation and running over to the light fixture... So we knew we need to replace some heat pipe...
After another sleepless night, drew realized that no heat was coming out of the open pipe and that water probably went south into the crawl space... He was right... So Sunday after church he was in and out of the crawl space emptying water and replacing more vent pipe.. not the best day to do it, but it had to be done...
It took us about a week to get all put back together and a little over $400
Hello Sunshine!
The day in McCall was fun... cold... but sunny and bright...
On the way home Hallie had fun taking lots of pictures... only to be photo bombed by Kara... which she wasn't very amused by.
Getting the mail on a snowy day... We were really grateful for this snow, because it helped to clear our the inversion and we had sun again in the valley!
Jan. 2014
