Well last winter the drainpipe got clogged with show and ice and water leaked through the roof and down all the walls and ceilings. We had to have 5 rooms repainted. Not bad, but I've only been here 2 years.
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I've just had a basement flood. Most things got out fine but we've been paranoid about it ever since.
Nothing has happened to mine. We had a tornado touch down in our back yard but thats it. My Dad built it himself and he thought of pretty much everything when designing it. If our house ever floods you better have a damn ark because God is pissed. We're not in hurricane or earthquake areas. We just get massive blizzards (near Buffalo New York). Fire and Burglary could happen but are unlikely.
One day a mystical portal to another world opened up in my room and I was transported to a magical land were all your dreams come true, and I had to unite this land against a unspeakable evil. After uniting the land and banishing the evil as a reward they sent me back home. My mother then proceeded to told me I was worthless and my father refused to help me work in the yard and continued to tell me that I was doing it wrong.
F*ck you other world, your a douche D:
F*ck you other world, your a douche D:
Your dad built a tornado?!Jodah said:
Well this isnt my house but my car, or rather my parents car. it happened on the driveway and any excuse to tell this story so..... anyway first i should explain my driveway is really steep, and really long. it joins onto a road cutting across it, with a cliff beyond that.
the car was parked on the driveway,the handbrake failed. have a guess what happened next. i shit you not its true, my car went down the drive and flew off the cliff, if you dont believe me, i have pics. mainly because i could not believe my eyes.
the car was parked on the driveway,the handbrake failed. have a guess what happened next. i shit you not its true, my car went down the drive and flew off the cliff, if you dont believe me, i have pics. mainly because i could not believe my eyes.
Idiot sister ran a bath and then forgot about it
Bath overfilled, broke the overfill pipe (that funny hole in the bath below the taps) and water pooled under the floorboards
Ceiling in the kitchen beneath the bathroom bulges, dampens and leaks. I realise this when I hear water dripping onto all the things on the breakfast bar.
Mum has to stand on the breakfast bar (crushing a couple of things including some very fragile items) with a sodden blanket and hold up the water running through the roof.
I have to try and somehow empty a large bath of water really quickly.
Dad gets home after I called him (sister was all for calling 911 in her panic (we live in the UK...)) and drills holes in the ceiling to let the water through better so it dosen't spread.
We have to rip the bathroom floor up and replace the bath
It was months before we had a working bath again, and I was terrified of running one for about a year after that
...but of course, because this is one of those "So Serious an Offence that 'It's Not Your Fault'" so my Sister gets off scot free.
Seriously, why is it when I forget to collect my ironing after being asked I get shouted at, but when my idiot sister sabotages the bathroom, costs us money for repairs, stresses and panics all of us and makes me frightened of running baths all she gets is a hug?
Bath overfilled, broke the overfill pipe (that funny hole in the bath below the taps) and water pooled under the floorboards
Ceiling in the kitchen beneath the bathroom bulges, dampens and leaks. I realise this when I hear water dripping onto all the things on the breakfast bar.
Mum has to stand on the breakfast bar (crushing a couple of things including some very fragile items) with a sodden blanket and hold up the water running through the roof.
I have to try and somehow empty a large bath of water really quickly.
Dad gets home after I called him (sister was all for calling 911 in her panic (we live in the UK...)) and drills holes in the ceiling to let the water through better so it dosen't spread.
We have to rip the bathroom floor up and replace the bath
It was months before we had a working bath again, and I was terrified of running one for about a year after that
...but of course, because this is one of those "So Serious an Offence that 'It's Not Your Fault'" so my Sister gets off scot free.
Seriously, why is it when I forget to collect my ironing after being asked I get shouted at, but when my idiot sister sabotages the bathroom, costs us money for repairs, stresses and panics all of us and makes me frightened of running baths all she gets is a hug?
No offense, but how do you leave a shower running? Not trying to be a jerk here, but genuinely curious as to how it can happen, you can hear it running when you leave the bathroom and I can't think of a single reason to leave it running when you're exiting 
I had fire in my apartment... one time because the heater malfunctioned (one of those old style boiler-like things that has it's own room, can't think of the English word for it right now), which was pretty serious. Luckily the neighbour saw/smelled it and called the fire brigade and there wasn't any real damage outside that room.
The second time... you know those little lamps with clamps? Well, my bro had these old drums and a big one was in my room for some reason. So I used it to clamp the lamp (the rhyme is really annoying isn't it?) to it. Big mistake. The damn thing's polish bubbled (I didn't know what was happening, it was a slow process, happened over several days) and one night it just burst into flame because of the proximity of the light and the heat from it. Wasn't really a big deal though, the drum was already long ruined and we just shoved it outside and put the fire out.
I had fire in my apartment... one time because the heater malfunctioned (one of those old style boiler-like things that has it's own room, can't think of the English word for it right now), which was pretty serious. Luckily the neighbour saw/smelled it and called the fire brigade and there wasn't any real damage outside that room.
The second time... you know those little lamps with clamps? Well, my bro had these old drums and a big one was in my room for some reason. So I used it to clamp the lamp (the rhyme is really annoying isn't it?) to it. Big mistake. The damn thing's polish bubbled (I didn't know what was happening, it was a slow process, happened over several days) and one night it just burst into flame because of the proximity of the light and the heat from it. Wasn't really a big deal though, the drum was already long ruined and we just shoved it outside and put the fire out.
when my mother went to take a shower last night she turned the knobs and no water came out...cause there was no water (remember i said the pump isn't working) so she must have turned it all the way up by mistake...went to sleep and then water came back (which was like 4 in the morning) it came out with a vengeance...also the door to her bathroom was closed...so she didn't hear anything...Vrach said:No offense, but how do you leave a shower running? Not trying to be a jerk here, but genuinely curious as to how it can happen, you can hear it running when you leave the bathroom and I can't think of a single reason to leave it running when you're exiting
that answer your question...and please...have nothing to say about my mother...it was a genuine mistake...
I got burgled on christmas day when I was 3 years old. Only things that were stolen was the TV, £50, and some milk & bananas (for some bizarre reason). It costed more to get the door repaired then to cover the cost of what was stolen.
Ahh fair enough, no I wasn't implying it was a stupid mistake or anything, was just thinking "hmmm, I'm in the shower... I get out and leave it on... nope, not happening", sounded like something out of a Simpsons episodeHayate_GT said:when my mother went to take a shower last night she turned the knobs and no water came out...cause there was no water (remember i said the pump isn't working) so she must have turned it all the way up by mistake...went to sleep and then water came back (which was like 4 in the morning) it came out with a vengeance...also the door to her bathroom was closed...so she didn't hear anything...Vrach said:No offense, but how do you leave a shower running? Not trying to be a jerk here, but genuinely curious as to how it can happen, you can hear it running when you leave the bathroom and I can't think of a single reason to leave it running when you're exiting
that answer your question...and please...have nothing to say about my mother...it was a genuine mistake...
But yeah, I actually had the same happen to me once (think it was during the '99 bombardment time when the water/power was going out all the time), fortunately didn't happen overnight so didn't end up in a flood hehe
My house in my hometown and the basement suite I'm living in currently have never had to endure a disaster.
I count my blessings, day by day...
I count my blessings, day by day...
