During clean up

These are clean up pictures. The carpet is pulled up and fans are blowing under the carpet. There is a monster size dehumidifier in the basement. All of the walls have holes poked in them about every 6 inches at least. They had to discard the baseboards and carpet pad. Where they took off the baseboards some of the paint peeled off and the dry wall tape peeled up. In the bathroom is the worst, as far as the walls. It took a chunk of dry wall off.

I also added a picture of our garage which is crammed with stuff, a lot we will have to throw away after the adjuster sees it. Like the couch: It sits close to the floor and so the water wicked up the fabric and into the inside of the couch. It was wet at least 4-6 inches up the side of the couch.

The basement version of Typhoon Lagoon

With all of the torential rains, flooding, high winds, tornadoes, etc, etc here in Iowa, it seems amazing that we made it through the end of June with no problems. However, the problem caught up to us and now we are paying (a deductible) for it. The photos are of our basement which flooded Sunday night. Since the electricity went out we were without a sump pump for 9 hours. We had a small river in our basement which managed to wreak havoc on nearly everything. Our furniture, sub woofer, entertainment center, book case, along with several other things are currently being stored in our garage until the adjuster can come look at it and assess the total cost of damage.

Service Master came out today and pulled up the carpet, tore out and disposed of the carpet pad, punched holes in the wall to dry the insides of the wall out, sprayed anti-mold foam on everything, and cleaned up the dirt and sand that washed in. I am gratefuly they did all the work!!

These are before pictures. You can see where the water is by the color difference in the carpet. The darker areas of carpet are where it is wet. If you can't see a color difference it is because all of the carpet in the picture is wet. 95% of the basement carpet is wet.

Typhoon Lagoon

The kids area had little slides, squirt guns, water falls, and a short little river they could float down. They had so much fun here, and they were exhausted when we left.

Disney Land

The parade!!!

Disney Land

Playing in the Goofy Playground.

Disney Land

Max was a little scared of Mickey and Minnie.... and he was getting over throwing up in the car to visit Mickey and Minnie.