not-so-funny

Picture this: it is about 10:30 pm on a Wednesday evening. Tired from a long days work man heads to bed. About midnight a much needed gentle rain begins to fall. A little bit later it starts to downpour. Man wakes and remembers that there is a HUGE trench going between his garage and house and just the other day he had to punch a hole in the brick to accomodate the new plumbing. The hole had only a temporary patch (do you see where this is going?). Good thing he thought ahead and built a dam to hold any rain water back. Slowly he goes downstiars to check his work. As he heads down he hears Niagra Falls. Funny, he doesn't live anywhere near there. Now he is running. As he rounds the basement stairs he finds his own version of Niagara. Basement is flooded and water is pouring in! Damn Dam. He bails water, throwing it into trash cans, buckets, the toilet- whatever will hold muddy water. He can't work fast enough. Plus he need to get outside to build a bigger dam. He screams for his beautiful, sleeping wife. She comes to his aide- bailing on the inside while he is on the outside. Knee deep in mud and water he bails and builds a bigger dam. About 3 hours later the Lord slows the rain and the water stops pouring in. Now they have to deal with a flooded basement.

As you can see it was a LONG night. We have been up since 1:30 working feverishly. The kids got up at their normal time ready for a fun day. However the work is not over. These are the times I wish more than anything that family lived close or that Kyle or Ron lived here. I would have NO problem calling them at 2 am to help out. There is not a lot of people I can say that about.

You can laugh all you want. We are not quite there yet......