The damage has been assessed....

We went to Bakersfield to celebrate Mother's Day this past weekend. We had a lot of fun and ate a LOT of good food. That's always a guarantee. We did get a bit of bad news though. Saturday afternoon, our apartment manager called us and told us that our apartment had flooded. Something happened in the apartment upstairs from us, and water soaked down into our place, flooding the bathroom, the kitchen, and the living room. Tonight, we got home to find some...not-so-fun things. Here are some pictures.















They put plastic on the counter to catch some water (which didn't do much). And the water looks pretty gross because it ran through our cupboard.....















.....which cracked.















This is one of the holes where the water came out. Yes, that is a hole in the sheet rock.















The water also came from this point in the ceiling... It flooded the dining area and then started flowing out the front door. That's how someone noticed that our apartment had flooded.















We've got the nasty cottage cheese looking ceiling. Now it looks like moldy, burnt cottage cheese. Yum.















This is probably the most devastating picture. Our poor bookcase, that we just built, got wet. We'll have to repaint the whole thing. Boo.















This is our ceiling...on the floor.















This is a little hard to see, but it is the ceiling in our bathroom. It just got a little warped.















The carpet in the living room got soaked, except for about a foot in front of the couch. They pulled the carpet out and took out about half of the carpet pad.















The ceiling fell on Roger's flip-flops. Too bad.

Also, the workers blew the breaker that our fridge was hooked up to, so some of our food went bad. ...to top it all off. All in all, we feel very blessed. This could have been much worse than it is. We did get renters insurance (last month), so we will be taken care of. We do have great managers here, so I think everything will be solved quickly. We'll keep you all updated.