Just so happens that as we were about to get in our car and rush off to FF The Curve yesterday, when we get a call from home:
"Boy-ar, after work come home straight, don't go to the gym. Your room flooded: your bed all wet, your table wet."
OMG.
We were aware that repairmen were coming over to fix up the roof, as mum has been complaining about the roof leaking and hearing raindrops in her bedroom. That somehow our room instead got flooded seemed odd. Still, rushed home to check the damage. Tabulating losses in the car while driving home made our heart sink even lower than it already is.
Turns out that they were fixing the entire roof when it started pouring, and only our floor and bed was wet. The table might have been sprayed with water as calamity ensued, but our books remained dry (much to our relief).
We weren't so worried about the bed getting wet (so long as we weren't in it when it happened!) but our table carried plenty of concern - our MP3 player, our MiniDisc player, miscellaneous electrical chargers, our iPod speakers, and the towers of books (both wrapped and unwrapped). Not to mention that if water got into our shelves where we store our boardgames...oh dear.
Already last Friday at Mages we'd brought Pompeji to expose to others (we remembered Mr Jalan saying that he's not played it before) while waiting for everyone to prepare for a bout of Caylus. After a game of Pompeji we *somehow* (I'm not denying/admitting I did this, all I knew was I turned about in my seat, and next thing my cup of tea on the seat next to me toppled over) gotten tea all over my Pompeji set. I sat frozen watching tea flow all over Pompeji. Was some small blessing indeed that tea only spill on the cover, the rulebooks and the cardboard that once held the volcano tiles. Still, now I have a Pompeji set where the cover won't fit on the box perfectly. :'(
Speaking of small blessings, only my bed got wet. And the parquet floor tiles. Everything else - good.
And sis goes, "Mattress sure got smell afterwards."
Ugh.
4 comments:
Flood in my room?! Eeek! i'd faint. Hope you managed to salvage some stuff at least.
If there was a waterfall originating from my ceiling, I wouldn't know what to save first. Probably run around in panic. :P
At least none of you guys live at the foot of a hill next to a big river!!!
We used to store everything at the top of our shelves until we moved to my new home.
On the plus side, the flood was bring in plenty of mud that we just chuck into the compost heap for additional nutrients.
aiyor, wet the cover onli wat. not need to put yer pompeji set in cryogenic chamber, rite?
you can try to sell it to ivan for cheap and get a new set lor...
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