Wowsers what a flood

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I came home from the autism group and I hear my mother screaming at my husband. I walk in through the door and I see the kitchen all out of order. My mom was putting kitchen stuff in bags and the floor was all damp and drawers were out and I asked what is going on. mom told me my husband left the water running with hot water and it warped the cabinets and it flooded the basement and the whole entire kitchen. I notice white marks on the cabinets in front of the sink. Mom is then screaming at me about my husband and tells me how furious she is and how he was thawing out something and then our son needed him so he went to him and left the water running and forgot about it and he didn't even tell her and Dad about his mistake because the mess would have been less severe if he told them. He said he got most of it but she calls BS on it because all the counter tops were wet and so were the drawers and he got everything wet in the basement. I go down in the basement and the floor was wet down there and so was the carpet in my parent's bedroom. We had tons of wet towels and clothes and my dad and my husband were wiping everything up and there was water still dripping. I felt mad at my husband too because of what he did and I hope he didn't leave lot of damage. We left the doors open and the drawers out for them to dry so they won't get moldy. But behind the dishwasher it might because we had no way of pulling it out to wipe the water out. My husband didn't know the water went into the basement or in the cabinets. My mom even told him when my brother was 16 or 17, he left a window open and a big storm came and water came inside in the kitchen and into the dining room and my brother came home from work and saw the mess and he called Mom at work and told her and asked what does he do about it. She told him to wipe up all the water and everything and get the rug out of there. My mom was mad he left the window open while he was at work and the floor got all wrecked so my dad had to sand it and their rug got wrecked.

There I was looking on the bright side like "We were going to paint the cabinets anyway" "The floor is all clean now" and my mom tells me I keep doing that and maybe it will help her feel better. I asked if she was being serious or sarcastic and she said she was serious. I also said our movie tapes felt dry and my mom said just imagine if they didn't get to it in time, they would have been ruined and our family memories would have been gone.

Now we have the rug hanging up outside and all these wet towels and clothes and we have them on our chain fence. The flood also went into the closet in the entry way and in the entry way and my box with my books in it I brought back from Montana got all wet. I did toss stuff outside on the front doorstep for it to air dry I got out of the closet that was on the floor.


It was an experience we had and kids can really distract you and make you forget so always turn the water off when you leave the room.