I have officially ended my period of blog mourning for Oreo now and am so ridiculously behind on posts it's almost funny. The last weekend in March we took a drive out to the lake to survey the damage. What damage, you ask? Well, this is what can happen when an oil company forgets a delivery and a pipe bursts.
Now, to show you the hole in the pipe I'd practically need to give you a microscope, but it's quite out of sync with the amount of damage it caused. The pipe burst on the second floor kitchen. The water ran for some time. Since it was still dang cold out there, once the water reached the sliding doors, it started to cascade into a large ice sheet down the side of the house.
Once the ice became several inches thick, the neighbor (Norm, you rock) called us.
Bottom line, everything except for the 2 upstairs bedrooms had to be gutted down to the studs. The upside? All the work is now almost done and you can hardly recognize it now. I'll see if I can get some "after" pictures soon.
The first picture is a view from the bottom of the steps to the basement. You can see all the way through the closet that used to be there, the downstairs kitchen, the downstairs bathroom (see the shower stall door?) and into the back bedroom.
The second picture is of the kitchen upstairs. And, couldn't resist a picture of the kids standing "in the lake". The lake gets drained a bit every winter to protect the docks, and usually the spring thaw fills it back up again. It's still pretty low this year, which is ironic considering all the rain we've had! And last, but not least, Julia holding her baby cousin.
So, fear not. Lake party, still on this year!
2 comments:
So did the oil company take any responsibility for the damage? Can't wait to see the after pics!
It sounds like there has been some contact. Since the homeowners payout was huge, it's up to them to duke it out with them now...
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