Thursday, June 10, 2010

Texas Thunderstorms, Snails, and a Hole in the Wall


Two nights ago we had a killer Texas thunderstorm. One of the things I missed dreadfully while at school in Provo was the Provo weather's inability to provide a significantly loud and wonderful thunderstorm. I love listening to the rain and the thunder and watching the room light up with lightning. What's also fun after the rain is watching all the little buggies coming out of their hiding places. Normally I am not a fan of bugs, but I thought these snails were too cute not to take a picture of! It's fun to see snails after the rain. But, look what the rain also brought to our apartment complex besides snails :

If you can't tell what that is, it is a hole in my closet wall. A hole that was made from water seeping into the walls during the thunderstorm. I woke up in the morning to find a huge hole in my closet, and thankfully only one or two things got wet. I was very grateful that my wedding dress and Ben's ties are on the OTHER side of the closet, and did not get damaged.

Here's the hole from a closer viewpoint. So, I called the apartment complex and they said they would have the maintenance guys come and "fix" it. Basically the guy came in, looked at the hole, said, "that's really big" and then said he couldn't fix it until it stopped raining outside. I thought, ok, fair enough. Turns out when I called the office today the maintenance guy says he can't come and fix it until it's totally dry. Ummm....it's a hole in the wall from which water is leaking. I don't know if this thing is ever going to be dry. So, now all my stuff has been moved out of my closet and is scattered around our room in disarray. Oh, and the carpet guy came by, pulled up some of the carpet, and then left. So, I'm not very impressed with how this situation has been handled so far. I hope they fix it tomorrow. I'm starting to think that possibly I attract water coming in from unwanted places. In my freshman dorm at BYU our basement apartment flooded four times in one year!

3 comments:

  1. At least you can still call a maintenance guy to come and fix it! That would be horrible to have to worry about yourselves.

    ...At least... if the maintenance guy does anything!

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  2. I thought I commented on this disaster I guess I didn't. That really stinks. we use to have water leaking from our roof but it was in the Kitchen so that worked out. And then for the next 3 weeks we had people on our roof All day!! GOod luck!

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