The mitigation guy is here and progress is being made on the basement. First thing he did was start cutting out the carpet in the main room. It was difficult to stifle a giggle. I told him he could take anything down and cut anything out that he needed to.
Update - mitigation guy has cut out most of the carpet downstairs and left several giant fans and a dehumidifier to dry out the walls and wood. He mentioned that our paneling is over drywall and that's usually bad, so it would probably have to come down. Heartbroken? Not so much.
I started removing bins from the well area earlier today to see what could be salvaged and what was toast.
Completely dry inside:
The wedding bin, containing invitations, favors, napkins, etc.
My high school bins, containing diploma, awards, keepsakes, etc.
Pants' father's saxophone
All of the Christmas decorations that weren't actually on the tree, including the girls' ornaments and the Christmas angel.
Damaged:
Pants' mickey mouse ornament bin, but only the original boxes which seem to have absorbed some of the damp.
Pants' old D&D bin, which got some water in it, but not much. Pretty much everything is intact.
Toast:
All of our luggage.
The Easter bin, which has a foot of standing water in it.
An entire down comforter
My entire file of UReg's with all of my college newspaper articles
Pants' keyboard
Pants' rocket and microscope slides
Two boxes filled with jewel cases and DVD cases (actual discs in giant cases)
Unknown (Items I haven't viewed or salvaged yet):
The 5-gallon buckets of paint for the girls' rooms and the outside of the house.
Pants' foot locker (standing on end on the floor) and another tote bin full of his keepsakes and Eagle Scout stuff.
3 comments:
The comforter sucks, but at least you can get good luggage pretty cheap at Marshalls, TJ Maxx etc. For me, losing Easter stuff wouldn't be a big deal either, seeing as we don't have any. =) As for the newspapers, just pretend you donated them as insulation to the House of 42 Doors. *snigger*
My URag stuff went missing at some point too, so we should go up to Morris and break into the archives sometime and laugh ourselves senseless.
Umm... if it makes you feel any better I am reading a book that says down comforters are a major source of allergens and asthma problems. I used to worry about this kind of thing happening to our stuff so we put some of those fancy hanging tote holders in the garage. Imagine my surprise to find water damage in one of our Christmas plastic totes. Apparently Cheesehead thought we could keep snow globes in an area of the house that freezes.
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