Regard the miracle of the folded laundry. I left it down here to wait for the last load. A pipe flat out burst this time, intake thank goodness, and the laundry managed to perch on this little island in the flood.

Waiting for a call back from the plumber. Bought a shop vac. Starting upstairs where the water isn’t actually as catastrophic I think because the room is more important?

I had a pipe burst, so send the strength

Millennial grief: RIP my collection of used gift bags to reuse

Though really I am full to the brim with gratitude. The scope of the damage is so manageable.

It’s not good. But I am breathing so many pieces of gratitude for everything from “I don’t have to redo my laundry” to “not a single piece of electronics appears to have been impacted. We will need one new power strip.

Basement flooring has me nervous

Incursion into my sewing room damaged almost nothing. It was limited and most stuff was up on thing a

As I said above, I think the greatest loss is that we may have to have the basement refloored and that will suck, but we do have insurance#

Actually a way some of you could be helpful—if you’ve dealt with a flood and used insurance, at what point did you talk to them?

A lot of asking myself “what would Sue Kellerman do” iykyk but mostly library and specifically Penn State folks.