So, the Midwest rains have been freaky! On Tuesday, we had an extremely bizarre rainstorm during the night. Since, we live in our bunker-type house, we are always unaware of what the weather is like, however, I was awake most of the night Tues (as was 3/4 of Quincy's population) because the storm was extremely loud. Also, probably because I just got a tune up on my bionic ear as well, but that is a different story. Anyway, when I got up and put my feet on the floor I felt a very strange and extremely cold squish under my feet. At first, I thought that Princess had gotten sick but as I moved my feet, I became aware that the entire Nort side of my house was soaking wet from my kitchen which had a giant puddle into the middle of the floor to my master bathroom and it was a span of about 2 feet wide. SUCK!!!!!! Now, we just spent several hundred dollars taking care of the south side of the house that normally has this problem and it is now dry but now we have the north side. .....Sometimes, I really HATE this fucking money-pit that we just had to have because it is historic and cool, and we got to determine how we wanted it to be built. .....After buying another fan and dehumidifier and going through all of my towels, everything is now dry. I don't think my carpet is ruined, but it will have to be cleaned which sucks because it is only a little over a year old.

I did learn, however, that we actually had it rather mild in comparison to how others had it. Many people who had dry basements ended up with water in them. When we bought our dehumidifier, there was only one more left on the shelves. Also, I quickly learned that there were homes on the east side of town that ended up with raw sewage in their basements as well and there homes had to be treated in the manner of a toxic spill. Oh well, I guess it can always be worse, still, I love this house less and less these days.