Jennasis
DIS life goes on
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This is what DH asks me last night after dinner. He's standing in our kitchen. cleaning up after dinner. I hadn't heard anything, so I tell him he's crazy. DH goes to let our dogs out to go potty and I hear him scream...
"Sweet merciful crap! They hit the water!"
Say what?? That doesn't even makes sense. So I jump up and go running outside to try and figure out what he's talking about.
The mother of one of my students had backed her truck into our pump house (a small building that houses our well pump). And the building was demolished...like Haiti-after-the-quake demolished! The woman is just standing there slack-jawed, staring at the disaster, and DH looks like he's about to have a heart attack.
There's cinder blocks strewn all over, and crumbled in on top of our pump. The roof is falling off the building, and I am praying that the pump (which supplies all of our farm and house's water) isn't damaged.
So we start pulling cinder blocks off of the pump, and we move the roof out of the way, and thank GOD the pump isn't broken. No idea how the lady didn't notice the building...and of course, not a dang scratch on her truck!! Thankfully, it isn't winter and we don't have to worry about the pump freezing, but of course it's pouring rain today so we had to cover the exposed pump with a tarp to keep the electrical system from shorting out.
Getting estimates now to have it rebuilt, and yes, she will pay EVERY...SINGLE...CENT. She kept asking "how much will it cost to fix??" and honestly, I don't know. I have a feeling we'll be talking to her car insurance people. I doubt this is the kind of thing one can pay for out of pocket.
Ugh...
"Sweet merciful crap! They hit the water!"
Say what?? That doesn't even makes sense. So I jump up and go running outside to try and figure out what he's talking about.
The mother of one of my students had backed her truck into our pump house (a small building that houses our well pump). And the building was demolished...like Haiti-after-the-quake demolished! The woman is just standing there slack-jawed, staring at the disaster, and DH looks like he's about to have a heart attack.
There's cinder blocks strewn all over, and crumbled in on top of our pump. The roof is falling off the building, and I am praying that the pump (which supplies all of our farm and house's water) isn't damaged.
So we start pulling cinder blocks off of the pump, and we move the roof out of the way, and thank GOD the pump isn't broken. No idea how the lady didn't notice the building...and of course, not a dang scratch on her truck!! Thankfully, it isn't winter and we don't have to worry about the pump freezing, but of course it's pouring rain today so we had to cover the exposed pump with a tarp to keep the electrical system from shorting out.
Getting estimates now to have it rebuilt, and yes, she will pay EVERY...SINGLE...CENT. She kept asking "how much will it cost to fix??" and honestly, I don't know. I have a feeling we'll be talking to her car insurance people. I doubt this is the kind of thing one can pay for out of pocket.
Ugh...
. Don't ya just wonder how some people get through life?
