‘Sela’s last mischief.

 On Wednesday, 30 January I woke up around 9 am and heard a drip sound through the intercom.  I thought it might be rain for it was a grey morning, so I did not pay much attention and prepared breakfast for Otto and me.  After having it, around 9:30 I went in to Sela’s room so that Otto could cuddle with her while she woke up, as usual.  I came in the room with Otto in my arms and when I walked around to the foot of her bed my feet got wet.  Having placed Otto on her bed I splashed to the bathroom where the dripping got louder and there it was: about two inches of water covered the bathroom floor.  Water had sipped to her room and the carpet was soaked from the beds to… let’s just say one third of her room was flooded.  I saw that one of the sinks was full and to my horror the faucet was on!!!!  So here was a rude, cold and very wet awakening for Sela.  She said she had washed her hands at around 7:30 am and probably let the faucet on.  But, let me tell you people that must have been a good 4 to 5 hour dripping for the amount of water.  I spent a good part of the morning with two lots of towels, stumping the carpet, collecting the heavy dripping towels, to a spin cycle in the washer, then to the dryer, while I stomped with the other lot of towels.  Let me tell you I was done with exercising when noon came around.
 The flood experts came in around 1:30 and told us that they needed to get fans a dehumidifiers going,  and that I should call my insurance because the bathroom floor was showing 100% humidity/wet –don’t know what kind of gage that was, but it beeped loud and measured 100%- and that the floor would have to come up, sooner than later.  So… while I was having four classes in a row from 3 to 7pm, Roberto took charge of the situation while the men came in and out, took Sela and furniture out of the room and proceeded to install three fans in her room plus a dehumidifier and one fan in the bathroom plus another dehumidifier.   The breakers tripped once or twice because they got overloaded or something.  Roberto kept coming up to the school room to give me details and get me to talk to the insurance people.  Of course nothing was said about the fact that ‘Sela had stopped up the sink and the draining hole on the edge of it so that creepy crawlies won’t come up and give her a fright.  We said that there was a flood because the sink had backed up.
 When I finished my classes and went in I found Roberto and ‘Sela in bed trying to figure out whether she could sleep in there with the noise of the machinery.  I thought that the humidity had overflowed to their brains.  So we had a big argument about the fact that she could certainly not sleep in there with the wind blowing her hair off her head, with the dust that was flying around from the fans under the carpet, the amount of wires and tubes from dehumidifiers…  I told Sela I would call tio Carlitos so that he could talk some sense to her about this because she would not listen to me and Roberto saw no problem.   So finally, after we ate something, I called Florence and told her that ‘Sela needed to sleep over and surprisingly, Sela went as quiet as a lamb.  I suppose she realized that I wasn’t going to give in.
 I had to wait until the storm passed and still raining I took her to Florence and Brian’s house.   Since then, she’s been staying over there until the machinery is out.   On Saturday the floor was taken off except the around the toilet.  The machinery was left in place until Monday.  The insurance adjuster is coming on Monday morning.  Just pray that it covers the damages and that the replacing of the floor and the installing of the padding and stretching and nailing of her bedroom carpet is done soon.  We begged them to do so stating that she was handicapped and in need of her bedroom and bathroom.  We shall see because apparently the company I called is not one of the ‘preferred’ contractors of the insurance so we’ll have to deal with new people.  Here are some photographs.  

Bedroom

Bathroom floor