Progress.
Today, I picked up a new clothes dryer out of state, as locally, they are not in stock. Got it installed after several trips to Ace Hardware (I am NOT a DIY type of person, so this is all very painful)
Did our first load of laundry and dried in the dryer. Success!!! It's odd seeing our basement gutted...meaning, nothing in it now except appliances. It's our storage area, normally.
Believe it or not, today, we had a 5% chance of rain, and a single cell sat over my town and we got super heavy rain. It lasted about 15 minutes. We got another 8 tenths (nearly an inch) and it instantly ponded and flooded a few streets in town. Now the sun is shining....
The city came by an hour ago and picked up all of our trash (ruined appliances, ruined rugs, ruined clothes, furniture, etc). Nice to see our yard empty now. Whether I'm mentally ready or not, I need to go to work tomorrow. Not sure how I feel about that. Part of me is feeling sorry for myself for a ruined vacation, the other part feels like things are not back to normal yet. And, obviously, we had to unload several thousand dollars to buy stuff to replace what was ruined. Money we don't have...at the moment. That's what credit cards are for I guess. Charge it and figure out how to pay it back later.
So, it's going to be a couple weeks before we can get those. And, since a good chunk of our town is in "the same boat", everyone is camping out at the laundry mat. Geez.....no clean clothes. I've worn the same shorts since last Thursday. Ughhhhhh.
