6:00am – Lisa wakes Parnell expressing her extreme dissatisfaction that we have no running water throughout the house.
6:01am – Parnell bolts downstairs fearing the worst that is there is no water upstairs something dreadful happened downstairs.
6:01:15am – Parnell find basement perfectly fine with no broken pipes. Checks all pipe looking for cold pipes none found…
7:00am – Convinced the water stoppage is external of the home Parnell and Lisa both head to work as normal.
8:00am – Parnell calls the Middleboro water dept from work and asks about water stoppage, Water dept agrees to send people over to check it out.
9:30am – Parnell is back at home with 7 guys from the water dept standing in his basement.
9:35am – While working on the pipe one of the city workers exclaims loudly OPPS, as sounds of water start rushing out of the pipe.
9:35:10am – The same city worker now struggles like a Dutch boy with his finger in a dam calling to the others to turn off the water from the street…
9:45am – Another city workers comes back “We can’t find the shut off… it’s under a snow bank” “Then fruckin dig it up the first man cries…while continuing to struggle holding the flood of water from the pipe”
Simultaneously I’m using my 10 gallon wet dry vac, filling the thing every 20 sec and dumping it I couldn’t keep up
9:55am – Water is still flowing heavily and is now rising above the subfloors…. Street shut off still unfound under a snow bank…
10:15am – The only city worker with a brain puts a pressure cap on the pipe and finally stops the flow of water.
10:20am – City workers call their boss and tell them they screwed up and he needs to come examine the flood they created!
10:25am – Street shut off is finally found and turned off, Pipe is cut and head replaced, I have the broken end as a souvenir
10:30am – The head of the water dept is standing in 2 inches of water in my basement apologizing and telling me they will send a company out to dry things up.
10:35am – Everyone from the water dept leaves, My dad and I spend the next hour using my wet dry vac soak up what water we can….
11:30am – World wide drying company shows up and uses there industrial vacuums to get whatever water was left they set up 3 huge fans and left telling me they would be back with dehumidifiers in 2 hours..
12:00pm – I find a cold pipe in my tool room… sun of a bitch!!!! I use a hair dryer on it and 20 minutes later normal water flow in my house is restored!
12:30pm - water dept stops by again asking if the drying company has arrived and if my water service has been restored... I tell them yes I solved it myself…
4:30pm - World wide drying finally shows up (5 hours later) with 2 huge industrial dehumidifiers and leaves all 3 fans and both humidifies running non-stop in my basement for 4 days….
The basement seems dry now but I have no way of looking under my subfloor to see if its still wet under there… I may have to cut into it tonight and look under just to be sure… Lisa says that so far it doesn’t smell moldy or mildueish but a heavy resurgence of pet smell has returned and were going to have to find a way of solving that… chuck gave me the number of a guy Ill ask about that and other testing,,, basement water never got much higher then 2 inches to there was no real water damage to walls and such… so I guess I consider myself lucky… especially since the water guys showed me the pipe that broke… They said it looks like it was ready to break any time and I was lucky it broke while they were working on it… Made them responsible for any damages and clean up…. The city dept was pretty stand up and gave me there number to call if I need to report any damages… I just realy dont want smell problems in my basement!
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