A New Project!!!

Aren't we lucky? Spring's coming and I have all these ideas for the garden and the flower beds, but no. We'll get to work on repairing this:

Riley, who saved the day. Notice the two smaller buckets collecting water in the background.

Waterfall. Soaked bedding.

This is what it looks like when your toilet overflows for oh... I'd say at least 1/2 an hour.

Earlier today Shannon was worried that the toilet was backed up after he'd used it, and I checked it out; everything was fine. Then tonight, Ken used the bathroom and said it was plugged and not to go in there. I didn't. Wish I had.

A while later Riley came upstairs and asked if it was raining and we said no. I offhandedly mentioned to Ken that the toilet was plugged and maybe we should look into it, but nah, neither of us thought it was anything other than the bowl filling up. A little while later Ken muted the TV and we sat there listening for a second, then looked at each other and ran.

Water was everywhere upstairs in the bathroom and hallway. In Riley's room in the basement we had water flowing from two recessed lights and the heating vent. All told, at least five gallons accumulated in the basement alone, and an additional two or more gallons were all over the floors upstairs. Ugg.

Ken's hitting the basement with the wet vac right now and I'm washing all of Riley's bedding and the massive amounts of towels we used to collect the water. Thankfully we still had plastic sheets on Riley's bed, or we'd have lost that mattress for sure. And thankfully Riley was still awake and noticed the problem before it had gotten any worse.

And now, for those who thought we were stupid to drywall the basement ceilings, let the "I TOLD YOU SO's" begin...