The Flood: Part 2

Its been about 4 days since The Flood, and we still have so much work to do.  I am absolutely exhausted, I don't think I've ever been so tired in my whole life.  Today was my first day back at work...so my day is work, go home and work on the house, then head to my aunt's to sleep because I no longer have a bedroom.  Usually before I go to bed, I try to catch up on emails and blogging, plus I am still trying to catch up on laundry that got wet during the flood.  Utterly exhausting.

I wanted to leave you with some more pictures of the flood.  

The bar.  Which coincidentally we were enjoying just a few hours before.  :(

The couch.  Which has since been cut up using a saw and thrown out.

My bathroom.  The cabinet still has to be ripped out.

My poor, poor beloved desk.

Lovely, eh?

I'll try to post pictures soon of what the basement looks like now.  We have the carpet up, drywall out, and mostly emptied out.  Insurance inspectors are coming tomorrow, so hopefully we can start the remodel soon.  Fingers crossed!

The Flood

Well...I've been a bit absent around here lately, and let me share with you why.  On Friday night/Saturday morning, the area in Illinois where I live experienced by largest amount of rain in the shortest amount of time since they have started keeping track of rainfall.  Which was a long time ago.  I'm not exactly sure how long it rained, but we got 7 inches.  SEVEN INCHES! That is a ton.  And this is the result:

View from the stairway into the basement.

The TV area.

My poor, poor bedroom.

Our power went out that night about 2:00 am, so we were scrambling around in the pitch black trying to rescue what we could from downstairs.  Let me tell you...not fun.  But I must say, I'm pretty impressed with the flash on my camera.

So now, we are left with tons and tons of work and recovery.  I'll post more pictures within the next few days so you can see more of the devastation we are facing.  Keeps us in your prayers please.  We're going to need them.