Eastburn Adventures

There has been severe flooding all over southwest Missouri this week, and we came home from work last night to find 4 inches of water in our basement. Actually, our cat, Sammy, discovered it. We were fixing dinner and heard a spash! "Meow!" and the thunder of little kitty feet scrambling up the stairs and sliding along the hardwood floors as she scurried under the bed.

We immediately went into salvage mode and got as much as we could off the ground, and discovered that our built-in sump pump had failed. My dad brought his pump down and also got ours working again, and with the two pumps had most of the water out by 1:00 a.m. We spent today moving everything out of the carpeted area of our basement (which included our library - lots of books were destroyed), using the shop-vac on the carpet, and borrowing fans from everyone we knew.

It's going to be a lot of work for the cleanup, and our insurance company is weaseling out of covering it (even though it was an equipment failure that ultimately caused the problem), but it could have been so much worse. Some people lost their homes, and others lost their lives. I can't find it in my heart to be that upset over losing stuff - especially since my stash came through the flood completely unharmed.

Our prayers go out to all the victims of the flood.