Sunday, May 14, 2006

Rain sucks

So I went to my parent's house today for mother's day. It all went well, I gave her her gifts and I ate dinner there. I didn't get to talk to Kiko today, so that sucked. I finally get home around 8pm and decide to do some laundry. I go downstairs and the basement is flooded!!! With about 6 inches of water!!!! I'm the only one in the house (Kiko's mom who lives upstairs is in Italy too) and I can't find the damn pump or even know what really to do. so I unplug everything near the stairs (just in case) and role up my pants and have to wade through some pretty cold water. I eventually find the sump pump, which is tiny. I set it up and have to go back outside barefoot and in the rain to get the hose from the back yard so I can hook it up to the pump and pump the water outside. So I get the pump going but I dunno if it'll be enough to get all that water out (there's a lot of water and of course it's still raining). And to top it off there's 2 furnaces and 2 water heaters down there, so that's 4 pilot lights that can be extinguished by the water. So I decide to go to Wal-Mart or Home Depot to get another pump and a carbon monoxide detector (just in case the pilots are extinguished). Well its 8:45 and they're all close, I even tried going to the super market and it’s already closed too!!! So I have to just hope I am still breathing in the morning. After I get back home I check to see if the water is going down any, and luckily it is just a bit. I check the water heaters though and both their pilot lights are submerged and of course out. So I might as well turn both of them off since I don't want to fill the basement up with natural gas once the water lowers enough. So that means no hot water and no shower in the morning in addition to all this headache. So by the end of the night, I’m wet, a little cold, no hot water, the potential of carbon monoxide poisoning while I’m sleeping and I’m here in the house alone with no Kiko. this night sucks.....

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