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[StormCrow]

So, Sunday morning 730am I was woke by the wife screaming. She stepped out of bed into a puddle of water. I jump up and I can hear water splashing, go into bathroom and water is spraying massive amounts from behind toilet. Luckily the shut off at toilet stopped it when I turned it off. Head downstairs to look, living room and kitchen flooded, water coming from roof in kitchen, i hear more water downstairs, head down to my mancave in a panic, water is coming like a waterfall from the light fixture in middle of room and theres 6 inches of water on floor!!! 4 acoustic guitars are in 6 inches of water, one being my Moms who just passed last month and another being my Dads who passed 3 years ago. My $2000 Marshall tube amp is soaked. Luckily ny high high end guitars were on guitar hangers on wall and undamaged, got a friend to come pick them up right away as the humidity alone will damage them. Like $10,000 in guitars on wall

Today insurance coming to get all the water damaged stuff and Sunday we are moving into the townhouse literally next door that was vacated last month and fully renovated.

Lost alot of precious to us things, stuff from my Mom and Dad and no money amount can replace

Going to be a hectic week, no pc desk as it was damaged (pc ok thankfully, was up on a side table and power bar/surge protector was on table too so out of water. Have to pack up house, ya normally got a month or two to plan a move, we have days and im stressing big time!

 

 

 

[major-mark63]

Shit what a mess , also not lucky your floor drain is not working ....water sometimes is almost worst than fire...Hold on lot of drying and work to do.

[bds1961]

When you get it all put back together, invest in a Flo by Moen.  I put one on my main water line at my cabin.  It senses unusual water flow and will alert you and then will shut the water off by itself.  It would have prevented what had happened to you.  It takes awhile for it to learn your water use habits but once it has it works great.  It also does micro water leak tests at night and will let you know if there is any small water flow at night when there more than likely not be any. Mine picked up a 1.5 gallon use when no one was there.  Ended up just being a bad flapper in the toilet letting s super small amount of water slip by.