Work was called off today, but I got called to go out to Long Beach NY because my new pumping station was acting up. I think I talked about this before, I know I did at the Allamuchy weekend. It's a brand new untested station.
Anyway it acted up so I drove 2 hours out there to find a float stuck up against a piece of support. Mother fucker, I asked the guy on the phone if all the floats were coming on, and in order and he said yes.
So I hit the float with a stick, and went home. 4 hours driving, 5 minutes work.
Eileen had come over and helped my wife bring all my crap out into the yard to bake in the sun. Took the ladies out for lunch or dinner or whatever 3:30 was and came back and packed up all my crap again.
My camera gear looks bad, real bad. I left it in a tupperware container full of rice and it's still in there. Both my good lenses and all 3 flashes I think went underwater. Fuck.
My trunk full of childhood toys went underwater, all my star wars toys. Old concert shirts from when I went to shows with my wife when we weren't dating and were like 15 years old, but those I can salvage. Lots of magazines ruined, my grammar school and middle school yearbooks. My first pair of Doctor Martin's, this sucks.
Some of it will be fine, some is trash.
My stereo speakers are done, the nice 5.1 surround setup for my PC still has water in the driver and subwoofer, and the transformer just poured water out all over me, so that's done.
Somehow my PC still works, it had water IN it, and IN the power supply, and it was on!
My driveway is full of all the ruined stuff, but that's not the hard part.
WTF do I do about all the wet walls? Thankfully a lot of my basement is 70's porno wood paneling, I don't think that holds much water, but what's behind it? Probably insulation. Some parts of the basement are sheetrock, and the cedar closet. The kitchen cabinets, the bottoms are all screwed up.
Am I going to get mold? In my old house we just had painted brick walls, so I never worked about this kind of thing. This is a finished basement that never got water in it before, I'm going to die of mold poisoning like Ted Nugent.
I'd leave some fans on in here but I'm afraid of Korean Fan Death
