Wednesday 12:30 AM
The man in the apartment above my moms fell asleep with a lit cigarette, in a NO SMOKING building.
5 Fire trucks come to the rescue. 4 police cars come to take the man away. :) Hooray!
Hard to tell from picture but the firemen had just made a hole in the ceiling to try to get all the leaking water to drain out of one place. Worked! After much scurrying around to get things moved and covered we all just waited to get the water to stop.
Water began to leak in her office. More scurrying around to move and cover computer and paperwork away from where the water was about to come through. Worked. Thanks to our SA firemen. So handsome, so efficient, so kind so buff. They were always there to explain what they were doing or about to do and the process.
Buckets were everywhere catching some really gross water.
Next day when we come back I saw this is the trash bin.
and this on the ground.
Evidence - cigarette smoking was the cause.
I began to feel like I was on CSI. I was taking pictures and looking for plastic bags to put the evidence in and take back to the lab . Apartment manager.
Closer picture of the hole made to drain the water from upstairs.
Few of these pictures just show the water marks and believe me it looks like they were about to cave in.
Before I got there they said this section looked like a water fall coming down. They made another hole here as well.
(next day) When we came back we cleaned up the kitchen and throw away the soaked cookies etc.
More shots of the ceiling.
A little dirt collected between the floors of the apartment. This is what was pouring out of the walls. I say just gut out the apartment and start over but not sure that's the plan just yet.
Under the sink had 1/4" water in it the next day so we cleaned that all out. Aftermath of the waterfall. Nice of it to fall near and on the kitchen sink. Always an upside to everything.
This is noon the next day. We hear water splashing down from upstairs but it was doing it outside. They said this is the water that would have come into her apartment but they were sweeping it all out over the staircase.
I have to say the apartment has been wonderful so far. They have really jumped on getting it dried out with about 8 dehumidifiers going for three days they say and then will decide what they will have to do to repair it for moving back in.
Meanwhile they are going to put my mom up in another apartment. So the SA adventure of my mom from Ohio over a year and a half ago continues.
This all could have been so much worse and we know that so for that we are grateful and are going to make the best of it. Meanwhile my mom is staying with us until the place they have for her to use is ready.
PS THIS SITE IS STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION. I CAN'T FOR THE LIFE OF ME FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO IT. SOMEDAY PERHAPS BUT IT'S A PRETTY BUSY TIME OF THE YEAR SO THIS BLOG CONSTRUCTION SITE ISN'T A PRIORITY!
