First the fire, then the flood

I got a call around 9 am this morning that there was apparently some flooding in our office. Someone had left one of the taps open in the bathroom, and the floor drain could not keep up with the flow of water. How could someone leave a tap open you might ask? Well, when you only have water running in the taps for a couple of hours a day, it is easy to leave a tap open without knowing it. I could hardly be upset with whoever did it, because we have done it before too. In fact I mostly felt bad that we had wasted all that water.

A few minutes later another call . . . . this time to report more extensive flooding than originally thought. It was not only a small area in the main room, but the whole of another room had standing water as well. With computer equipment and other electronics all over that office, it was easy to begin imagining the worst. I headed down there.

By the time I arrived two of the programmers had begun sopping up the water with some towels kept in one of the cupboards and were using a squeegee to push water out a doorway as much as possible. I joined them and began soaking up water into a bath towel, then wringing the towel out and repeating the procedure. Within about 15 minutes we had most of it cleaned up.

The good thing about it being 1000 degrees here this time of year (ok, slight exaggeration, but it did hit 107 in the shade here this afternoon and more than 130 in the direct sunlight) is that any remaining water was quickly evaporated.

It does not appear that any of the equipment suffered in this potential calamity. Whew!

So, two days of fire (or things getting burned anyways) and now one day of flooding. What will tomorrow bring? Freezing? Wind storms? Infestation of vermin or insects? Oh the possibilities. Can’t wait. Each day here is a new adventure.