Well, I would have written more recently, but the last couple days have been taken up with travel. More travel than we had planned on.
Apparently, a pipe burst in our living room while we were in Baltimore, and our neighbors fortunately were able to get into our place. They discovered 3"-ish of water in our entire first floor. Of course, this was at about 3am on Christmas morning, so most plumbers were not available to come out. The ones that actually were working were so overwhelmed by calls that they couldn't make it to our place. Our neighbors shut off the water supply to the whole complex since they couldn't locate the shutoff to that particular pipe, and everyone had to go without water until about 4pm when a plumber finally arrived and fixed the pipe.
Meanwhile, we caught the first flight home and arrived right after the repairs had been done, but there was still water on the floor and we set to removing all the soaked items including our new rug, which probably weighed around 150 lbs. or so when saturated with water. And given it is natural fiber, it was giving off an interesting odor.
We now have some water remediation specialists here working on removing baseboards and drying out the floors and the walls. They have this super-cool vacuum equipment that sucks the water out of the floor. It's a real mess, but we should be able to begin getting back to normal on Tuesday - we hope.
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