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... they'd have no luck at all. What an ordeal my mom and dad are going through. You remember me telling you about the last time we had all that horrible rain? How my mom and dads house flooded, not once but twice? The good news was that they got all new carpet in the house and did some renovations that had been on the back burner for a while. The house is really looking good.
Well, Josh had been sick since he got back home and they hadn't seen him. Saturday, I loaded up the car and we went over to say hi and just spend some time hanging out. When we walked up to the door, I could hear a vacuum cleaner going. Pretty unusual since mom has a cleaning lady that comes in now and again while she is at work to do that shit for her. (Yeah, must be nice, right? And she calls ME spoiled. Pffft) Anyway, we walk in and the high-heat industrial lights are out and there are two shop vacs going full blast. They got flooded again.
No, we haven't had any bad rain lately. Apparently the cleaning lady has one of those swiffer-type mops with the cleaning chemicals in a bottle on the handle. You know the kind I'm talking about. The last time she left, she put the mop near the water heater. There is a tube that branches off the feed to the water heater that provides water to the automatic ice maker. Well, the chemicals ate through the line and there was water spraying all night long.
That water was spraying right on the water heater as well. It got into the electrical system of the heater and tripped the circuit breaker. When dad woke up, he started cleaning up and went to reset the circuit breaker. As soon as he did, flames exploded from the water heater. I mean shit! WTF? Luckily the fire was under control within minutes and did no damage to the house. Also luckily, the circuit breaker did its job and the house didn't burn down in the middle of the night.
So the end result is, they get a new, energy efficient water heater and dad has the impetus to do the renovations on the utility room he's had planned for a long time. So all's well that ends well, but you just gotta be asking "What's next?" That's how my weekend went. How was yours? Later skaters.