flooding and sewage

There are times when i really hate being a homeowner. Last monday it rained like crazy all day and continued to rain all during the night. I’d say it rained for a good 16 hours or more. And it was very hard rain. SO anyway…Trevor and I woke up around 3:30 and smelled a horrible smell. THinking I had left a stinky diaper in the boys room I didn’t think much of it and just went back to sleep. WEll by 5:00 the smell was so bad that it woke us up again. WE got the idea at the same time to check downstairs. I thought there is no way its the boys…the smell is too strong. WEll downstairs was definatly the problem. THe entire basement was flooded as well as the sewage had backed up and that was where the smell was coming from. We were both gagging. So I ended up calling my mom at 6 am and packing up the boys and heading to her house. IT finally stopped raining later that day but we had a big mess on our hands. WE had to move in with mom for the remainder of the week and Trevor took a sick day on tuesday and spent most of the day clearing out the water. When we got it all out Trevor called a plumber to see about the sewage problem. We have horrible clogs in out pipes. He got thru 3 clogs and couldnt get thur the 4th. Boiled down to the fact that we need new pipes. So the plumber is coming back tomorrow to do that for us. Trevor called Miciah Leadingham and he came over to the house saturday to replace the carpet downstairs. So that is finally done and I bleached the floors as well to kill the smell. So finally the house is coming back together. There is still lots of cleaning to do (the boys playroom is downstairs so there is a lot of toys that need washed now )and its gonna be slow go but hopefully it will all be back together by thanksgiving.

Well thats about it…keep us in prayer. This is really hard on me cause there’s alot i cant do because of the baby and all. But with the Lord’s help we’ll make it.