Monday, June 1, 2009

Flooding at OKR

Upstair's water valve controlling the water going into their boiler was broken and ended up flooding their apartment and water came through the floor and into our place. Luckily for us, apart from no electricity, phone, and internet for the day, no serious damage was caused. The below is a rough idea of what happened throughout the day...

5:30am - Woke up by the smoke alarm. The first thing that came to mind was 'Who is making toasts this morning?'. Got up to reach for the smoke alarm button... didn't stop. Turned to look at the clock... what the... 5:30?!?!?!?! Is it really a fire? Lets walk out and see.

5:32am - Went outside, no smoke, good sign. Went to the living room, the entire house's smoke alarm was going nuts. Looked upstairs and saw PT walk out of the room and saw what was in her room. Kind of shocked... water came flooding down from the ceiling through her smoke alarm.

5:33am - Went for the toolbox to get the screw driver so I can stop the smoke alarm, knowing the button won't work I have to just knock it out totally.

5:40am - Knocked out all the smoke alarms apart from 1 in KT's room. The girls were knocking on her door trying to get her to open. Apparently she didn't notice the entire house was going nuts.

6:00am - Trying to contain the situation, buckets, bowls, and towels everywhere. Water seeping through and now lines of water running down the walls in my room.

6:30am - After calling emergency, plumber, and landlord, there really isn't a lot we could do. PT hungry.

7:00am - Decided to look for people upstairs, he came down to assess the situation. After mentioning many times, PT decided to go to Sainsbury's to get breakfast.

7:30am - Emptied 2 buckets of water from upstairs. PT back so OKR had breakfast in front of the newly installed water features.

7:45am - Landlord arrives, had put on a lot of weight. Probably a bit shocked of the situation and thinking WTF. Apart from his huge pot he didn't show any emotion and declined breakfast offer.

8:30am - Landlord finished using his carpet drying machine and left. OKR exhausted and slept on couch, have photos. SMS FLy to tell her to keep sleeping, run canceled.

9:30am - J called FLy, half asleep. Then PT and J slept on couch, KT went back to bed, KH playing DS.

10:00am - PT and J still won't get up to go out. KH struggling with Puyo Pop Fever. KT sleeping.

10:30 to 11:30am - PT, J, and KH all left the house to do various stuff. KT sleeping.

1:30pm - KH returned home. KT sleeping.

3:30pm - KT woke up. KH about to go sleep.

6:00pm - KH got up, PT home, KT went back to sleep.

6:30pm - Everyone awake in OKR and prepared to go out for the night.

3 comments:

mallymoodle said...

LMAO!!!

okay, probably not that funny at the time, but funny here!

Pooey said...

i really like the 'landlord put on a lot of weight' comment.

and yeah!! wtf is up with jade having a full blown conversation with me while sleeping!?

SuBoo said...

I like Frannie's new nick name.

FLy!!!