Defining Disaster

Dec 19, 2014 by winjaw

Quoting Noah Webster, a disaster is “a sudden event, such as an accident or a natural catastrophe, that causes great damage or loss of life.”

Tornado, flood, fire, tsunami, hurricane, earthquake, etc. All would fall under that definition.

There is also a somewhat milder definition – “an event or fact that has unfortunate consequences.”

Yeah, unfortunate being the key word here. Let’s back up.

We had friends from Alaska visiting this past weekend. We took them out to lunch and, upon our return home, they decided to go for a walk. I decided on a power nap.

I had just settled down when Eldest SON of Thunder let out an expletive I have never heard come out of his mouth. It startled me so much that I yelled back the parental “What did you just say?!” with as much force as possible.

“Come here now!” was his yell back. Now, having one of my offspring cursing and demanding my immediate attention without telling me why … well, that won’t work.

Anyway, I get out of bed, round the corner into the hall and nearly slip on what can only be described as a bunch of water. Like an inch deep of water.

On the second floor. On the new wood floors we’d just installed a couple months back.

About that time, Middle SON yells from downstairs, wanting to know why there’s a shower of water falling on him in the downstairs bathroom. Side note: there is no shower in that bathroom.

Let’s see, what happened next. Oh yes, Eldest wades – that’s a pretty accurate term – out of the utility room.

“The washing machine flooded,” he explains.

Oh good. That would be the washing machine on the second floor.

Let’s fast forward and survey the damage.

The washing machine did not overflow. Rather, a part broke at the bottom and water just basically poured straight down onto the floor. For several minutes.

We got to know Tim and Ramon very well. They were very nice and professional. They were from the water mitigation company our insurance company sent over. By the time they were done, half the ceiling in the garage was gone, as well as the insulation. The wood floors we’d put in in the upstairs hallway were gone, as was about half the flooring in Eldest’s room.

The tile in the SONs bathroom was ripped out. The toilet sits in the tub.

Downstairs we have three rooms where the ceilings have holes drilled in them to check for more water damage.

You know, everyone has a breaking point. It may not be the worse thing that happened, but there’s always some point, something, that makes you say, “Enough. I can’t take any more.”

For the LBD, that point was when she watched Ramon and Tim drill holes in the various ceilings. She asked if there was some pattern they were following, some symmetry to what any normal person would call a shotgun blast approach.

Tim said “no.” Poor Tim. That was not what the LBD wanted to hear. In the midst of this disaster, she wanted some bit of order.

I tried. “Sure there’s a pattern, babe. Look right there is the Big Dipper and over there is Orion’s Belt.”

I never realized how heavy a soaking wet towel can be until I got hit with one.

Until next time.

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