Yep. We woke up on Tuesday morning to an absolute flood the likes of which haven't been seen since, well the Democrats got handed their head in the midterm elections on the same day. I woke up and said to Darla, "Did you turn on the heater last night?" I thought I heard the fan running on the heater. I took my shower and dressed for work and carried my shoes out to put them on in the family room as I always do and stepped into a torrent of water pouring out of our middle bathroom and out into the hallway by our room and inundating Daniel's old room, David's old room, the family room and the living room. There was so much water it was rushing out the front door as well. We got the water turned off. it was a break in the valve behind the toilet. I had a plumber out to replace the valve and line to the toilet and called our Homeowners carrier, Allied. They promised to have someone out there within two hours. Three hours later I called our agent, fired ServiceMaster who failed to contact me or show up and got CPR (Certified Property Rescue) out there in an hour to start the water extraction and emergency services. It was determined that our closet organizer that we had put in in 2012 was ruined and that was pulled out, all of the affected carpeting had delamination of the carpet from the backing and that had to be pulled out.
Darla and I stayed in the house for the first three nights, but the sound from the blowers finally drove me batty and we moved Friday into a Residence Inn. The carpet was pulled on Friday and the tack strips remain along with the naked slab. All of the storage in the boy's rooms has been pulled out and boxed up and stored in the PODS container. The pool table was removed and put in the garage and we were able to grab some clothing for the next few weeks, the rest of it was boxed up and stored in the PODS.
Our adjuster from the company came out on Friday morning and was quite unpleasant to our CPR contractor, taking him to task for removing the closet organizer before she could inspect it and letting him know it was "inappropriate" to discuss the carpet with us. I'm glad he did, I believe it was her intention to try to salvage the carpet and I could see where it was separating, especially at the ends. We also called a contractor on Friday, who met with us on Saturday and inspected the damage. The adjuster gave us a check for the damage less the carpeting and closet, but our contractor will go to bat to get more as he wants to repaint several of the walls altogether rather than just do touchup. At this point, we need new carpets and we will look into upgrading at least the family room to hardwood floors and our bathroom to tile floors. Darla also wants the hardwood in our closet, but we'll see what the additional cost is. We also had to have all of the baseboards removed in the affected areas and those will have to be replaced. The cost of the work by CPR will be extensive as they have been pulling carpet, drying all of the walls and rooms, packing up and cataloguing all of our contents from the affected rooms. They had to box and store the china as well as Darla's blue delf collection. We also had the designer from the closet organizer come out and take measurements to replace the organizer in our master walk in. Darla is talking to her about designing a Murphy bed for the front bedroom (David's old room). She will make that her office, but wants it to double as an extra guest bedroom as well.
One thing this loss is forcing us to do is go through all of the things we had stored in those bedrooms and clear it all out. We will be able to have people come and stay with us after this is all over as we'll have three bedrooms available for guests.
I did get away from all of the headaches (my personal Hell as I refer to it) and get out and play golf. I hit balls on Saturday between meetings with contractors and then got out today and played in our Turkey shoot at the club. I had trouble clearing my head and shot 44 on the front, but calmed down and shot 40 on the back for an 84. Our last tournament of the year is next Sunday and it is the Eclectic Final.
You can see pictures from our home and the damage done. I also included a picture of our trees on the street side of our home and the fall colors in full display. I'll be sweeping up all of those leaves in the next 30 days.
My good friend Rick Rusk lost his battle with cancer on Monday night. Rick planned his chemo treatments around our recent trip to Carmel. He made it out there, played 18 holes both days, participated in all of the meals and fellowship and it took a great deal out of him. He went downhill after the trip and Darla and I both feel that it is like he crossed the finish line wen he joined us for that trip. I drove the cart with him at Pacific Grove on Sunday and he was physically exhausted with his hands on his knees and breathing hard. I got permission to drive him up on to the tee boxes and we did. A smile never left his face and I was honored to be with him on his last golf game. Rick and Jan have been such a big part of our lives over the last twelve years or so. Rick was my Vice President when I was President of the golf club and I picked him because of his administration skills. He was brilliant. We also got stranded with Jan and Rick in Phoenix on one of our trips to Mexico. There was only room for four people on standby for the flight from Phoenix to Puerto Vallarta after our flight from Sacramento was cancelled due to mechanical trouble. We had a ball hanging out at the hotel in Phoenix with rick and Jan and my memories of our time together are full of joy and happiness. His celebration of life will be on the 22nd at The Ridge golf course in Auburn.
Well, this is short, but I am working from my laptop in a small room in the Extended Stay in Roseville. We moved over here from the Residence Inn because it is half the price. I have Additional Living expense on our Homeowners, but I don't want to take advantage of it. This place is pretty Spartan with no daily maid service and a small kitchen, but will work until we can get flooring into the house. I hope you are all well and we will be in touch soon. Love you guys! Ciao.
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