Flooded

Normally I love storms. Perhaps not as much as the weathermen do when there is a big system coming through and they are nearly crawling out of their skin with excitement at their weather map exploding with colors, but I like a good strong storm once in awhile. This weekend, however, nailed us. On Saturday our basement began flooding, as most houses did in the area, and it hasn't stopped. About 10 minutes after it started Ryan and I decided that he needed to brave the storm and go to Home Depot for a shop vac, dehumidifier and fan. He made it there and back successfully, and all three of our new purchases have not stopped being used since. Our washing machine has been solely running on the spin cycle. We've finally gotten to the point where we can actually throw the freshly spun towels into the dryer, and rotate the wet ones out, but even that took us some time. With continued storms and more flash flood warnings coming today, it looks like "dry" won't be in our future anytime soon. That being said, we're thankful we found the leaks before they got worse, and we're more than thankful to still have a house. There are some others in the area that have lost everything.