And being flooded is one of the most helpless feelings you can have. I have been flooded in my home. And it is a terrible feeling. You are doing all you can do, you have seen the water building up and you think “Is that going to be okay?” But then it’s not okay. The water keeps building up, the rain keeps coming down. The next thing you know the water is lapping up against your door threshold, its lapping up against the base of your walls, it is coming into your garage. And then, it starts to come into the home and you are reaching for towels, you are throwing towels down. You are trying to sop it up and block things up and stop it from coming in and there is only so much you can do. You run out of towels, the water just keeps coming in. This has happened to me and I’ve seen it happen in my own home. And I go to the refrigerator, grab a beer and just throw my hands up in the air. What else can I do??? Well, in reality, avoid that however much tempting. What I am trying to say is you become numb and you feel helpless, you are trying to figure it out, “What else can I do?” That happened to me. And this is what I did. I went and grabbed my raincoat and camera. I walked outside and I started snapping pictures of all these things, so I could document for insurance purposes and record this information.
Lesson learned: I need to be proactive. I need to start taking action to alleviate this flood risk in the future. Maybe you can’t eliminate it, but you can reduce it. The chance to reduce the risk for damage to occur to your property by taking certain measures and looking at things closely. This is the learning of a skill that you can use moving forward for the better maintenance, management, protection, and care of your big-time investment, of your property, of your beloved home. We will see you in the next post.
Recent Comments