Ewww! Sewer Problems...

So, yesterday I hopped out of the shower into a giant puddle of water—water coming from the bottom of the toilet. Uh oh, I thought, and scrambled to sop up a sop-less mess. I did the best I could to push back the water—thinking how very weird that it didn’t back into the tub very much.

I got out of that bathroom, went out of my bedroom, down the hall and discovered, yep…the other bathroom flooded as well, and worse. Quickly I discovered the water didn’t want to stay in the bathrooms and began traveling along the baseboards into the hall, our room, our closet and the living room. All of it ruined by nasty water…now the pain of dealing with insurance.

Last night, we slept to the peaceful sound of blowers and dehumidifiers. Several chunks of carpet have been ripped up and we’re waiting for baseboards to dry out. Fun, fun. My wife just called and it sounded like she was standing on a runway at Dallas Love Field. Oh yeah, the city came out and removed the blockage in our sewer line—a big thanks to the city of Marshall.

Looks like we’re getting a new floor, which is nice and which we had planned to do in the future. But I would have rather just saved up for it instead of going through the discomfort and insurance hassles.

I can’t believe people would intentionally fraud the insurance company to get something—it’s such a pain. Oh and is it a game! My prayer all night long as I couldn’t sleep—God let me seek you in this situation and not crumble to the temptation to exploit our trouble toward selfish means.