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At least we didn't float away
Tuesday, July 15th, 2025 09:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missdianeLast night we had QUITE the gullywasher. The nearby area that had a tornado recently got smacked with flash flooding. People had to be rescued from their cars on the highway. Highland Park is literal so while there was a nice river of water down the street, it wasn't a danger of floating my new-ish car away. However, that doesn't mean basements were safe. Compared to some houses, I'm sure we fared pretty well but we do have some cleanup to do tonight since the cheap area rugs are soaked and some of the stuff in nylon/plastic bags on the floor need to be sorted through.
Emily's getting ready to head out to get a haircut but I gave her a call and told her to set the tower fan up downstairs to get a start on drying things out and we're emptying the dehumidifier that we have down there on the regular. She also did a first pass with our shopvac and got some of the moisture up since we do NOT want mold. I popped out from work to go to Home Depot and bought a bunch of things of DampRid before other folks got that idea. I'm glad I did since at 8am, I saw someone else loading a shopvac in their car and another person with a sump pump and they had a whole big display of sump pumps. So if I'd have waited until noon, people may have lit onto the idea of DampRid.
She's going to stop by the other house and get the plastic bins she has stored there so we can transfer items to there. We also need to build the shelving we have to keep things off the floor in the event of more crazy weather. Speaking of the house, since there's no way we're going to be able to clear it by the end of the month, we may have a guest for some time - Emily's older niece Linnea. I don't have a problem with her staying at all. She's chill and she's also vegetarian and eats healthy so I'm going to use that as motivation to do the same.
I'm trying to encourage them to just SELL that house. It's not a good idea to keep it in the possible event that one of the nibblings might need someplace. It's got horrible juju from being the house where Emily had to care for her dying dad and then her mom with dementia and having to even put on child locks to keep her from wandering before she finally relented to put her in a memory care ward (thankfully a good one since her parents had money). The house itself is in a trust that Emily and her Sister maintain and honestly, it's an albatross. Emily needs to just collect the big need and want items from there and then just take one of those offers she gets all the time and let them gut or raze the place and put the money in the trust for her Mom's care until she passes. Her Mom is in the hospice stage but it's really a who knows kind of situation. Her brain is not there and her body is fading but you just don't know how long someone's system will just hold on.
Ok, gotta get back to work since I want to front load things and get as much done as I can in the office so that this afternoon I can sort through stuff in the basement.
Emily's getting ready to head out to get a haircut but I gave her a call and told her to set the tower fan up downstairs to get a start on drying things out and we're emptying the dehumidifier that we have down there on the regular. She also did a first pass with our shopvac and got some of the moisture up since we do NOT want mold. I popped out from work to go to Home Depot and bought a bunch of things of DampRid before other folks got that idea. I'm glad I did since at 8am, I saw someone else loading a shopvac in their car and another person with a sump pump and they had a whole big display of sump pumps. So if I'd have waited until noon, people may have lit onto the idea of DampRid.
She's going to stop by the other house and get the plastic bins she has stored there so we can transfer items to there. We also need to build the shelving we have to keep things off the floor in the event of more crazy weather. Speaking of the house, since there's no way we're going to be able to clear it by the end of the month, we may have a guest for some time - Emily's older niece Linnea. I don't have a problem with her staying at all. She's chill and she's also vegetarian and eats healthy so I'm going to use that as motivation to do the same.
I'm trying to encourage them to just SELL that house. It's not a good idea to keep it in the possible event that one of the nibblings might need someplace. It's got horrible juju from being the house where Emily had to care for her dying dad and then her mom with dementia and having to even put on child locks to keep her from wandering before she finally relented to put her in a memory care ward (thankfully a good one since her parents had money). The house itself is in a trust that Emily and her Sister maintain and honestly, it's an albatross. Emily needs to just collect the big need and want items from there and then just take one of those offers she gets all the time and let them gut or raze the place and put the money in the trust for her Mom's care until she passes. Her Mom is in the hospice stage but it's really a who knows kind of situation. Her brain is not there and her body is fading but you just don't know how long someone's system will just hold on.
Ok, gotta get back to work since I want to front load things and get as much done as I can in the office so that this afternoon I can sort through stuff in the basement.
