The Great Flood

Well, not exactly a flood, but something close to it. Yesterday afternoon I (Stevo) was at the library and Jaz called to say that she thought something was leaking from under the stove. She had cleaned up a spot that looked like a spill, yet ten minutes later it was back again. I told her to call the office.

Ten minutes later she calls and says water is leaking onto the counters from somewhere, and that it is also dripping out of the air conditioning vent. So I rushed home to find water all over the kitchen floor, leaking down the wall from the fire sprinkler thing, and dripping into a bucket from the A/C vent. Then, in the dining room, there was no visible leak but the carpet was wet if you stepped on it.
There was also water dripping out of the walls by our front door on the outside.

When I went upstairs to check on what was leaking, the 2nd floor lady said it was the 3rd floor that had a washing machine leak. Her apartment had a waterfall coming out of her A/C vent. The maintenance peeps came to shut off the water, and then a carpet dude came later to suck water out of our carpets. He also left a fan the size of an airplane engine to dry the carpet until Friday.

All in all it wasn't too bad. We are lucky that most of the water was in the walls and not in our house. Hopefully some crazy water creature isnt going to grow in there and attack us. But, I was reminded of how easy things can go wrong in life, and how we have to make a decision - be happy or sad. That may seem simple, but we could been depressed about water damage to our new apartment and stewed about it all night, yelling at whoever was in our path. Instead, we did what we could, tried to help our 2nd floor neighboor with her new (and unexpected) indoor waterpark, and enjoyed the gentle sounds of a fighter jet fan all night. Plus, it has made for an interesting blog entry.

How different life events can be based on the attitude we take into and out of them!