So, as you may have heard, we had a lot of damage to our home, mainly in the kitchen, due to one rain cloud that decided to
stall over our house for 15 minutes. The day before the catastrophe, the kids and I removed our flat roof. Not a small task, it measures 600 square feet. We worked all day removing the asphalt material, felt, some shingles and then replaced the damaged wood.
It's amazing what you find when you start tearing apart houses. The roof had apparently been re-surfaced
before and instead of replacing rotted wood, they just tried to patch it up. Well, guess where the leaks were, right, directly below the areas where they did their nasty patch work. We worked through the day and finally got the roof ready for it's new surface. We didn't see a cloud all day, as a mater of fact we were praying for clouds to give us some shade but to no avail. The chance of rain was 10% so I opted not to spend the $150 on a tarp to cover the roof, we'd get up there the next day and surface it.
Sunday we got up for Mass and I checked the radar and the sky looked clear, not active Doppler that I could see. Well, while in Mass the clouds decided to build over my house and only my house. On the way home it started to rain, and rain, and rain. Did you know that AC vents can leak 10 gallons of water per hour? And microwave ovens, connected to the roof vend, can strain water through them at even a higher rate? Did you know that lights, ceiling, and walls are not completely 
water proof? So I flipped the power to keep our selves from being electrocuted and we started managing water flow. While we were singing in the rain, Betty ran to Home Depot to buy tarps. She got home just after the rain stopped. We continued to clean up the mess and later that day spread out the tarp to cover the roof.
stall over our house for 15 minutes. The day before the catastrophe, the kids and I removed our flat roof. Not a small task, it measures 600 square feet. We worked all day removing the asphalt material, felt, some shingles and then replaced the damaged wood.It's amazing what you find when you start tearing apart houses. The roof had apparently been re-surfaced
before and instead of replacing rotted wood, they just tried to patch it up. Well, guess where the leaks were, right, directly below the areas where they did their nasty patch work. We worked through the day and finally got the roof ready for it's new surface. We didn't see a cloud all day, as a mater of fact we were praying for clouds to give us some shade but to no avail. The chance of rain was 10% so I opted not to spend the $150 on a tarp to cover the roof, we'd get up there the next day and surface it.
Sunday we got up for Mass and I checked the radar and the sky looked clear, not active Doppler that I could see. Well, while in Mass the clouds decided to build over my house and only my house. On the way home it started to rain, and rain, and rain. Did you know that AC vents can leak 10 gallons of water per hour? And microwave ovens, connected to the roof vend, can strain water through them at even a higher rate? Did you know that lights, ceiling, and walls are not completely 
water proof? So I flipped the power to keep our selves from being electrocuted and we started managing water flow. While we were singing in the rain, Betty ran to Home Depot to buy tarps. She got home just after the rain stopped. We continued to clean up the mess and later that day spread out the tarp to cover the roof. We 
decided to keep the roof tarped at night then pulling it back during the day to allow it to dry out. We did this Monday and Tuesday. Tuesday afternoon Betty had to take kids to Dr. appointments so they left it tarped to protect if from more rain. Well, when she returned, the wind had turned up one corner of the tarp allowing more rain to flow into our home, this time no one was home.
decided to keep the roof tarped at night then pulling it back during the day to allow it to dry out. We did this Monday and Tuesday. Tuesday afternoon Betty had to take kids to Dr. appointments so they left it tarped to protect if from more rain. Well, when she returned, the wind had turned up one corner of the tarp allowing more rain to flow into our home, this time no one was home.
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I imagine this is a continuing story, correct?
....yes....
Wow. That story seems so alive. Amazing.
I feel for you. That bites. Probably karma revenge on the whole sock in the mouth event of '76.
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