Facebook friends - I'm sorry you have to hear this again.
I didn't have a good day yesterday
Here's the story....
I go into the bathroom at work yesterday, and there's standing water in there
Not good, because this is also used as storage for finished goods (on rare occassions), and right now there are old highschool class pictures in there. Luckily, they were sitting on cardboard, and the cardboard took all the moisture - I think
.
I go next door, where a Chinese takeout is preparing to open, and I ask them if they are messing with plumbing, which I already knew the answer, by all the noise they've been making. They said yes, but they barely speak English, so I couldn't really discuss anything more with them
.
I storm over to my best friends/insurance agent, in the same plaza as me, and I have a fit
. If this is happening now, what is to come later????? (I'm extremely unhappy about this restaurant opening, because it's going to make store smell of Chinese food - that is not the image I want my store to have)
She calls the landlord, who owns a very highend martini bar in this plaza, and she said it is a problem with the roof, and the bar got flooded out last night (they are estimating $200,000 worth of damage
). She said it was raining buckets in the bar. One hole was over the Chinese place, and flooded them out, and the water came in through the bottom of the wall - not good!!!!
I go back to the store, and go into my office/playroom for the girls/storage for inventory, and that carpet is soaking wet along with everything on the floor I then go to the front of the store, and that carpet is wet also
The roof guy came in and apologized, and said that he will have someone come in and clean the carpet today. That's fine, but I had to move everything into my workspace, and now I can't work. Worse yet, my employee can't work now, so I'm going to have to pay her to do her homework. I don't want to shut down, because we can still help customers that want to place new orders.
After the cleaning guys came, he advised being shut down, because of the HUGE fans that need to be out front, and the noise they'll make. Plus, I had to take frame sample off my carpeted wall,, because that carpet is coming off the wall, because of the wall being wet (it will need to be replaced
). The store will now be shut down until maybe Wednesday
because after the carpet is dry, they need to clean it.
This whole thing is such a pain in the arss!!!! Thank God I didn't have more water damage, because I have people's very valuable things here. The owner of the bar said it was literally raining in the bar, because of the water coming through the ceiling there. If that would have happened here, it would have been a nightmare. It's one thing when your stuff is ruined, but when it's other's, that's much worse.
So that was my Friday
I did not have a good day!!!!!
So, now Kevin and I need to start making a list of everything that was damaged, what needs to be replaced, and money lost by all this
I'm praying that the contractor, that did this damage, will settle up fast so I can get my store back to normal.
It will be so good to see her. By then it will have been nine months since i've seen her! 
Yep, running late----NC Beast was tired so we are behind an hour plus in our departure.
I hate when stupid stuff like that happens and sets you back 
It worked.
