They say God answers prayers in His own time. He seems to be answering all those prayers for rain we sent up during the drought a few years ago! Yesterday morning I woke up to find that He may have blessed us a little too much. Our guest room carpet was soaked from water coming in the window and it had spread into the boys' room. (This morning we found it was also seeping in from an opposite wall.) This is the first time this house has had water in the basement and the original house still does not. It seems that when we dug down an extra foot for the addition, we went a little too deep to accommodate downpours.
The three rooms in our addition are now bare floors and we have carpet pad & carpet out drying in the sunshine. The boys' carpet is up on chairs with fans blowing from all angles.
Thankfully everything stored on the basement floor was in plastic totes or could easily be washed. As far as we know it did not damage any walls. Another good thing is that it was all clean water and we con't have any sewage to clean up.
It will be alright as long as everything is completely dry before it goes back in and we don't end up with a mold or musty smelling problem.
As I see the carpet pad covering my deck and gaze at the flooded creek outside, I think of my friend who has five boys. She once told me once that children are a blessing, but finally you just have to say, "Please stop blessing me so much!"
The same goes for rain around here for the time being.
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