For all of you out there complaining about the unbearable time between posts, we spent this weekend cleaning sewage out of our house. Beautiful Oak Park, IL received just under 8 inches of rain in a 24 hour period, the overwhelming majority of that coming overnight Friday night. The sewers and storm drains were full, and there was nowhere for the filthy smelly water to go but into our house and the houses of pretty much all of our neighbors. Fun stuff. Thanks so so much to Grandpa for his middle of the night "Dirty Jobs" audition as we worked to minimize the damage and to Grandma, Grandpa and (all the way from Italy!) Great Aunt Fran for entertaining David Saturday afternoon while Kevin and I cleaned. Overall, we were very fortunate. Since we (Kevin) woke up to the rain and were awake for the flooding, we were able to move everything of value out of the way. Our house has gone from smelling like poop to smelling damp and mildewy to almost back to normal this morning. Carpet cleaners come today, and once they've disinfected and cleaned we'll figure out how much of the carpet (which actually looks great) and padding underneath is salvageable. In the mean time, please enjoy this video of David rocking out to on the way to Uncle Dave's baseball game last night. David's future career: the UPS driver on the next version of "Scrubs." Good luck Tuesday night, Uncle Dave!
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Kevin and I were both entertained by David's back seat singing :) That's much less oboxious, too, than too little girls screaming Miley Cyrus songs.
So sorry about your basement! That does NOT sound like fun.
WOW...if Keith Moon were still around he could take lessons from David !!
So sorry about the flooding! I was so oblivious (no tv/internet), and I was being so impatient waiting for the movers to get here. They ended up being 5 hours late due to all the flooding issues. I had no idea it was that bad!
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