Poll: Oh look...my house is destroyed...

[Hayate_GT]

So...for the past couple of days my house has been having some water trouble...(grumble, stupid pump, grumble) so at nights we have a period without water...it's not a problem tho...i can explain that life is different when you live in the Caribbean but i'll just leave it like that...

to make a long story short...the shower in my parents room was left on...and the mat that was on the floor kinda floated and stopped over the drain hole soooooooooooooo....now half my house is flooded...

well not anymore...only my parents room is still a man made pool...i feel like crap cause i was up till minutes to 3 playing Jedi Knight II, then my mom woke up at around half 5 and I've been playing janitor since...

anyways...i know i'm not the only one where epic bullshit has happened at home...so please share...

whether flood...hurricane Badass was knocking at the front door...crack head was shot dead in the living room...anything...

 

[Chainsauce]

Nothing really. Some ants in the kitchen, that's about it.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Hurricane Badass?

Best. Hurricane. Ever.

Sorry to hear about your troubles, by the way. Worst thing that ever happened to me is slight water damage on the ceiling underneath the bathroom.

 

[lee1287]

Nothing. Ants and bugs in the kitchen, but i'd rather have a hurricane, fucking bugs, EWW. I Started a little firein my dining room. but nothing big.

 

[Eumersian]

I did put this in the previous iteration, but yes, a fire. Years ago (pretty sure even before I was born, but it was still the same house) some jackass with a cigarette was walking around in the forest behind the house. He dropped the cigarette, which ignited some leaves, which caught fire to the fence. It didn't actually happen to the house, but it was on the property, and the fence had to be replaced.

 

[SonicWaffle]

Overflowing shower. It doesn't sound bad, unless you know that a 5-minute shower would cause it to overflow and send water leaking through the floor and causing the kitchen ceiling to sag and blowing all the lights. It gets bloody dangerous, and nobody seems to want to do anything.

 

[Feneture]

Not in my house but my ex's.. Woke up in the morning after a night of heavy rainfall to find the entire downstairs area of the house was completely flooded! The sofas etc.. were floating around the house. Had to help save alot of her stuff and the pets etc.. Good times!

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

A few years back during a torrential downpour our basement flooded, as did the basements of quite a few people nearby, and years ago my mother left a heating pack on the stove and it filled the entire house with smoke, forcing us to evacuate. Fortunately there was no permanent damage, just a house full of smoke and then a very unusual smell from the stuff the fire department sprayed to get rid of the smoke.

 

[Agayek]

So...for the past couple of days my house has been having some water trouble...(grumble, stupid pump, grumble) so at nights we have a period without water...it's not a problem tho...i can explain that life is different when you live in the Caribbean but i'll just leave it like that...

to make a long story short...the shower in my parents room was left on...and the mat that was on the floor kinda floated and stopped over the drain hole soooooooooooooo....now half my house is flooded...

well not anymore...only my parents room is still a man made pool...i feel like crap cause i was up till minutes to 3 playing Jedi Knight II, then my mom woke up at around half 5 and I've been playing janitor since...

anyways...i know i'm not the only one where epic bullshit has happened at home...so please share...

whether flood...hurricane Badass was knocking at the front door...crack head was shot dead in the living room...anything...

Look on the bright side, at least you still have a house. There was a big ass gas line explosion about 5 miles away from my home last week and something like 35 houses were burned completely to the ground, including the house of a good friend of mine.

For me personally, however, the only real issue I've ever had with a house was when a corner of the house I lived in while at university started to sink. It wasn't really a problem for me, as it didn't effect anything inside the house while I was living there, but it would have become an issue eventually.

 

[nickjastrzebski]

The worst I've had here is a leaky roof. Apparently, strong wind (not Hurricane Badass though) knocked some tiles loose and rain got through.
It didn't cause much damage though, beyond needing the roof repaired.

 

[Optimus Hagrid]

From the title of this thread I thought it was going to be about JRPG cliches.

I remember when I was at my friend's house. After visiting the toilet, I hilariously joked that the toilet was flooding, and I was drowning. After said hilarious joke I flushed the toilet and ran upstairs.

About ten seconds later, the toilet bowl overflowed and most of the ground floor of the house was soaked in water.

It is probably the strangest thing that has happened, ever.

 

[ARatherHandsomeGent]

Flood, I'm an idiot and always seem to leave taps running whenever I leave the house for a while (like going on holiday).

 

[Rolf]

Flood
Can't realy remember what the reason was but a few years ago the entire first floor (that ground floor for those how use that) was under 5-10 cm of water. Took forever to get rid of it.

 

[Girl With One Eye]

Burglary. They took everything, tv, stereo, sega genesis, mums jewellry (irreplaceable family heirlooms), and anything else they could carry I guess. I was pretty young when it happened but it did affect me a lot, had nightmares about it for ages.

 

[standokan]

None of the above strange enough.

 

[Jark212]

When I liven in L.A. we had a couple of minor earthquakes every year, never lasted more then a second or caused any damage, except Northridge which my mom vividly remembers but we were a good distance away from the epicenter.

 

[C95J]

luckily, none in my home yet, and hopefully never.

 

[Iwantcandy]

My house was nuked with clusters ):

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

The house across from mine is usually home to many eastern European folk, then it swapped hands with many Middle Eastern folk, which confused us considerably - very smooth transition. They once had a week-long party to celebrate the death of a family member, and they didn't invite me. Tension between residents!

Anyways, that's not the important part. What is important is that they suddenly moved away and don't seem to be returning any time soon. Every so often one guy would come over a few times (I'm not sure if it's a different guy and this house is being used ill). Anyways, he was cooking, and managed to burn his hand. He left the house for help, whereupon things caught alight inside, and the fire brigade had to be called. There is still a lot of burnt detritus outside the house that has been taken out, and nobody has returned for many weeks now.

 

[Evil sausage]

Half our kitchen burned down because we forgot some things on the stove, for a long ass fucking time...