While we were enjoying a blissful vacation in storm-free Utah, Mother Nature was dumping on Pocatello. We have discovered that the town has some pretty legendary flash floods.
You can check out some YouTube videos here and here (yes, that is a 12-foot tall underpass filled with water and no you don’t have to watch the whole thing).
We live in a very hilly area with the back of our split level town home butting up to a pretty steep hill. The office/spare room has a sunken window. We wondered if rain would be an issue when we moved in. Sunday night we got our answer. This is what we returned home to.
That’s the water line. Yes, we had a basin holding about three inches of water outside our window.
It decided to leak inside causing …
So for the past week the landlord’s construction guy has been ripping up the carpet, the moldy padding underneath, drying out the subfloor with non-stop fans, ripping and replacing the baseboard and (once they are done) they will have a carpet cleaner come in.
We are hoping and praying that the landlord will assume the cost for this, but neighbors who rent from other agencies have paid up to $800 for this type of repair. Oy vey. Good thing we have some *it happens* savings!
