The Internal Flood of '07
If this ever becomes a record of our lives in the future, researched by my descendants, then May '07 is when we recorded the Internal Flood @ Niagara, where the Great dog Gizmo, crushed the grey water hose being used to avoid the Great Dry of '07, which in turn was caused by El Nino '07.
There is always someone or thing to blame for these accidents isn't there?
Anyhow, all the bedroom carpets got soaked, and we were faced with the options of keep or replace. The end result was 'keep', but that meant that the carpet's underlay was replaced and the carpets themselves had to be cleaned several times to restore them. This was a hassle because we all needed to work or school as well, so I had to work from home to be here the following weekday to let the guys in.
In retrospect this incident was nothing compared to the Great Laundry Fire of '92. This happened the week after we moved into Niagara and was caused by turning a clothes dryer upside down to mount it on a wall. The lint that had settled on the base in the old place, dropped down onto the heating elements, causing it to burst into flames. Now that was scary for Dee and the then very young girls. We then had to replace the washer and dryer, which had melted, part of the laundry ceiling and have the whole house repainted to remove the soot (cleaning couldn't do it) We also got new nappies and shirts from insurance.
Several years later, we had the Great Vomit of '94 from Nathaniel, when he drank his young self silly and proceeded too throw up over all the carpet down the hallway. We ended up replacing the carpet there with tiles, and nothing the kids or animals can do on that now makes much of a story to write. There is no "Great Wee from Gizmo on the tiles" story, because we just get a mop and bucket out, and clean it up.
There is a moral in all this, but I can't think of it right now.
There is always someone or thing to blame for these accidents isn't there?
Anyhow, all the bedroom carpets got soaked, and we were faced with the options of keep or replace. The end result was 'keep', but that meant that the carpet's underlay was replaced and the carpets themselves had to be cleaned several times to restore them. This was a hassle because we all needed to work or school as well, so I had to work from home to be here the following weekday to let the guys in.
In retrospect this incident was nothing compared to the Great Laundry Fire of '92. This happened the week after we moved into Niagara and was caused by turning a clothes dryer upside down to mount it on a wall. The lint that had settled on the base in the old place, dropped down onto the heating elements, causing it to burst into flames. Now that was scary for Dee and the then very young girls. We then had to replace the washer and dryer, which had melted, part of the laundry ceiling and have the whole house repainted to remove the soot (cleaning couldn't do it) We also got new nappies and shirts from insurance.
Several years later, we had the Great Vomit of '94 from Nathaniel, when he drank his young self silly and proceeded too throw up over all the carpet down the hallway. We ended up replacing the carpet there with tiles, and nothing the kids or animals can do on that now makes much of a story to write. There is no "Great Wee from Gizmo on the tiles" story, because we just get a mop and bucket out, and clean it up.
There is a moral in all this, but I can't think of it right now.
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