Water Everywhere!!!

As I listen to the hum of a wet vac in the house adjacent to ours, I write this post...yes, it is 2:30 in the morning and I should be sleeping. I tried to about 2.5 hours ago, and my mission failed! Earlier this evening, I was in our bedroom and I smelled something. I saw Todd's boots laying there so I assumed it was them and put them in the closet! (Sorry hun!) I did not think anything of it...waited for Todd to come home and went to bed around 12:00. He came to bed a few minutes later. I was in bed, all snuggled in, and as he started to change his cloths he asked me if I smelled something. I proceeded to tell him that I thought his boots were stinking up the room and I put them in the closet. He opened the closet and did his own investigation...when he opened the door I could smell that gross smell again! However it wasn't the shoes...he looked down and saw water glistening on the bottom of his closet on the opposite side of where the shoes were. (I never even saw it because it was only on the right side.) I am surprised he saw it because it is really hard to see water on these floors because of their shiny coat. Anyway, he took the flashlight and headed outside...water was running down the neighbors driveway, down the road and across the entrance to our driveway. Not good!!

Well, after taking everything out of our closet (just what was on the floor) we checked the spare bedroom...everything on the bottom of the closets was soaked!! We emptied those closets out and moved the furniture because it started to creep under the bed! (I lucked out because my side of the closet in our bedroom was fine-thanks to gravity, or I would have had a lot of ruined shoes!) Anyway, we called maintenance and after mopping out two huge buckets of water (just from the spare bedroom) the gentleman arrived and we met him next door. No one lives next door to us (if they did this would not have happened, it would have been caught sooner!) Anyway, the pipe on the back of their toilet burst and it was gushing water! Not a pretty site...The floors were covered with water. I tried to get a few pictures to capture it, but it is kind of hard to see. Here they are...

This is not what you want to be doing in the wee hours of the morning! (This was in our spare bedroom)

This was only from one of the closets!

Outside of the neighbors house...it doesn't look good!

Todd walking back their hallway...you can kind of see the water

Here is their kitchen (I kicked the water so you could see it ripple! It was at least one or two inches!)

So, as of right now I do not hear the hum of the wet vac anymore...as soon as the maintenance guy saw how much water was there, he said a wet vac will take forever...and had to call for reinforcements! I think they are here now, I saw another van pull in. I am going to try to get to sleep fast before they start making any more racket!! Good night...I will let you know how everything turns out in the morning!

Never mind...they just started the heavy duty sucking machine because it now sounds like a chain saw is running right outside the window. Great...and I thought the humming of the shop vac was bad! It's going to be a long night!!