About a month ago, my garage flooded. The stormwater was unable to properly drain through the parking lot out to a ditch and away from the garage.
Approximately 6 inches of rain got in my garage. This amount made all of my plastic totes shift which caused things to fall and lids to go wonky and water to get inside.
After garage flood 1, I went through and tossed stuff that was compromised and washed winter clothes that could be salvaged.
Why did I toss some things?
About 2 years ago my bike-to-work coworker witnessed a woman (on 10th Street) get out of her car (it was full of passengers), she then pulled down her pants and pooped. Yes. She pooped on 10th street during the morning commute. And it was not winter when it would've been a little darker. No, friends. It was summer. My poor coworker. His eyes were violated.
About 2 years ago my bike-to-work coworker witnessed a woman (on 10th Street) get out of her car (it was full of passengers), she then pulled down her pants and pooped. Yes. She pooped on 10th street during the morning commute. And it was not winter when it would've been a little darker. No, friends. It was summer. My poor coworker. His eyes were violated.
I imagine she's not the only street pooper in Rockford...which is gross.
Also in Rockford there are many cases of communicable diseases and that just creep me out.
On Friday we had torrential rains and 75 mph winds. I was busy working inside my cubicle so I really didn't know how bad it was outside.
The torrential rains caused my garage to flood again. I mean 1.5 inches of rain in 60 minutes is A LOT of rain.
This 2nd garage flooding reeked havoc with my Sterilite tote that contained my high school yearbooks and photos and notes and cards. All of which I had planned to do something with but never got around to it.
Regarding the loss of my high school yearbooks, Bryan said, "That's terrible, I mean how will you know that Robyn Raymond wanted to be your bff or that so-and-so thought you were fabulous!!!!" Brothers. They are truly the best.
Bry also said I should've taken pictures of all the ruined pictures so we could look through them today and he could comment on crazy middle school me. Again - brotherly love.
On Friday night after having to bite my tongue one more time in order to not congratulate someone for stating the obvious & for being ridiculously uninvolved, I came home to find the box o'memories ruined. Gross and needing to be tossed.
One item that I was able to save was a photo of my Grandmother from 1949. It was sealed in a Ziplock bag. Thank the Lord that this was protected.
Because I had hauled in stuff and threw stuff out, stood sobbing at the dumpster, and just couldn't handle much of anything else, I went to Meijers to get bathroom cleaning supplies, a weatherproof seals 8 ways storage tote, a frozen pizza and a box of dark chocolate cashew milk ice cream bars. And I may have eaten 1 ice cream bar as my appetizer and another bar for dessert (or 2nd appetizer).
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