TOTALLY GEEKED!

Good morning!

Momala, I will take the okra, please!

IKWTDS, you had an awesome vacation! Enjoy your last few days of freedom. :)

Heading out in a few. Got to get a few things done before tomorrow. Then I'm off to mom's to help with the last of her packing.

No kids for the weekend. DD and her family are heading out for a fun family weekend to a water park.

DH plans on fishing all weekend.

I will be helping mom..

BUT!!! I get to go to a quilt store.

Have a great weekend geeks!

TrudyML wrote:

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Shall I tell you the colors I'd like in my quilt?

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 Stop trying to cut in line and get behind me!

I know what to do_sometimes wrote:

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Momala wrote:

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Last load of watermelons and cantaloupes in
the pickup, just waiting to drive back to the
farm stand. High is supposed to be 99* +,
but at least we've got three fans going.
Hope all the pickles and okra sell.

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 Yum!  I never did develop a taste for Okra.  Probably because I don't know a tasty way to prepare it.

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 The proper way to prepare okra is battered and then fried with onions. 😋

chef wrote:

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lilyofcourse wrote:

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Good luck with all that Chef.

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 Thanks :)

Office is already lying. Yesterday, they said someone would be by that afternoon to do an initial inspection. Didn't happen.

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Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry to hear this, chef.

What a pain in the boonie!

I hope you can get it all fixed, without a major hassle.

Holding a good thought for you. 

Ohfour wrote:

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I just cut off 16 inches of hair!!!!!!

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 That's a lot of hair! Did you donate it? 

lilyofcourse wrote:

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Chef, you need to document everything. Take pictures and itemize everything.

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 Check, check, and check.

DH has 2 videos of the water POURING out of the ceiling near the light fixture in the kitchen. One taken soon after the sound of water running woke him up and one about an hour or so later showing that the water is still POURING out. Emergency maintenance guy declared that part of the ceiling to be fine. I fail to see how that much water can come out and the ceiling is fine.

I'm using FB as a diary of sorts since they time stamp posts. I post as things come up and will note the time when I create a timeline of events. The office seems to think we'll just let them do as they please. They are wrong. This is a health and safety violation and they are quickly hanging themselves with their lack of attention to the matter.

just Czech wrote:

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Wow, chef. I have no words.

Sure hope insurance will cover all damages to your belongings.

I would move if at all possible. Especially with the owners being so slow to repair, replace and accommodate.

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 We will be moving. When, I don't know. But, we will be moving. This is unacceptable.

chef wrote:

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Hey y'all. I've been super busy but wanted to check in. I don't anticipate being around much in the coming weeks either. Our apartment and the one above us flooded early yesterday morning. The cause was a toilet pipe bursting but we haven't yet heard if the pipe was in the upstairs apartment or between the apartments.

The office is being blasé and unhelpful. We received a fair housing lecture when we said the emergency maintenance guy said they could move us to a different apartment. According to the manager, it'd be a violation of the fair housing act to rehome us in the case of emergency. I doubt it and looking up info on it is on my growing list of things to do. The office is doing (supposedly) what they must do legally. The only accommodation they've done so far is to offer $50 in the form of a gift card to help defray the extra electric costs thanks to the blowers running to dry this place out. They refuse to do anything more and said to go through our renter's insurance. We've started a claim with the renter's insurance and our agent is going to see what exactly the office is going to cover so he knows what the insurance will have to cover. Frankly, I don't feel we should have to go through renter's insurance to cover this. We don't own this place and are not responsible for the maintenance of the pipes. I feel the management company's insurance should cover this.

There is extensive damage to our apartment. We've lost some irreplaceable items. Those on my FB have seen the pics and updates as I find more stuff. I found 3 more weak spots on the walls this morning. One was near the light switch for DS' closet. I flipped the switch and noticed that the wall moved. Saw bubbling under the switch and poked it only to have the drywall crumble behind the paint.

I'm afraid to look behind the couch and under DS' bed. Both have wood on the bottom. Both are probably trash. Our bed is definitely trash. We're putting stuff that the sun won't hurt on the patio so it can dry out. The office probably won't appreciate it but my give a hoot is broken.

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That is terrible, chef.  I hate to have to tell you but most standard leases are clear that the tenant is responsible for renter's insurance to cover damage to their own belongings.  My leases REQUIRE it and specifically state I am not responsible for any damage, which is a pretty standard provision.  It's because things happen.  It's not like the landlord purposely went and broke the toilet so it would leak into your apartment.  

chef wrote:

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lilyofcourse wrote:

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Chef, you need to document everything. Take pictures and itemize everything.

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 Check, check, and check.

DH has 2 videos of the water POURING out of the ceiling near the light fixture in the kitchen. One taken soon after the sound of water running woke him up and one about an hour or so later showing that the water is still POURING out. Emergency maintenance guy declared that part of the ceiling to be fine. I fail to see how that much water can come out and the ceiling is fine.

I'm using FB as a diary of sorts since they time stamp posts. I post as things come up and will note the time when I create a timeline of events. The office seems to think we'll just let them do as they please. They are wrong. This is a health and safety violation and they are quickly hanging themselves with their lack of attention to the matter.

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 Don't forget all the damaged items. Take pictures of that, as well.

And keep receipts for any expenses related to this. Document any time missed for work, too.

Lawyerlady wrote:

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chef wrote:

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Hey y'all. I've been super busy but wanted to check in. I don't anticipate being around much in the coming weeks either. Our apartment and the one above us flooded early yesterday morning. The cause was a toilet pipe bursting but we haven't yet heard if the pipe was in the upstairs apartment or between the apartments.

The office is being blasé and unhelpful. We received a fair housing lecture when we said the emergency maintenance guy said they could move us to a different apartment. According to the manager, it'd be a violation of the fair housing act to rehome us in the case of emergency. I doubt it and looking up info on it is on my growing list of things to do. The office is doing (supposedly) what they must do legally. The only accommodation they've done so far is to offer $50 in the form of a gift card to help defray the extra electric costs thanks to the blowers running to dry this place out. They refuse to do anything more and said to go through our renter's insurance. We've started a claim with the renter's insurance and our agent is going to see what exactly the office is going to cover so he knows what the insurance will have to cover. Frankly, I don't feel we should have to go through renter's insurance to cover this. We don't own this place and are not responsible for the maintenance of the pipes. I feel the management company's insurance should cover this.

There is extensive damage to our apartment. We've lost some irreplaceable items. Those on my FB have seen the pics and updates as I find more stuff. I found 3 more weak spots on the walls this morning. One was near the light switch for DS' closet. I flipped the switch and noticed that the wall moved. Saw bubbling under the switch and poked it only to have the drywall crumble behind the paint.

I'm afraid to look behind the couch and under DS' bed. Both have wood on the bottom. Both are probably trash. Our bed is definitely trash. We're putting stuff that the sun won't hurt on the patio so it can dry out. The office probably won't appreciate it but my give a hoot is broken.

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That is terrible, chef.  I hate to have to tell you but most standard leases are clear that the tenant is responsible for renter's insurance to cover damage to their own belongings.  My leases REQUIRE it and specifically state I am not responsible for any damage, which is a pretty standard provision.  It's because things happen.  It's not like the landlord purposely went and broke the toilet so it would leak into your apartment.  

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 Understood. I wouldn't mind if they needed to be reimbursed by renter's insurance. The correct thing for them to have done is to get us out of the apartment that night. This is bad and here it is day 4 post-flood and there is still wetness, our bed is still wet, and another wall gets a weak spot each day so far. I see bubbles popping up on the walls so I touch them to see if I feel squishiness (which could mean another leak) and the wall gives way from a light touch. The promised initial inspection was supposed to happen Thursday afternoon. It did not. Nor did it happen Friday or Saturday. Late Saturday, I got a call from the office assistant giving me attitude because I didn't answer the door for their vendor to collect their blowers. I'm partially deaf and did not hear the door. I told her that we still need the blowers because there is still wetness in the apartment and our bed is still very wet. Nope, no can do, the vendor is on the way back to your door right now to get the blowers she said. Well, alrighty then!

I saw a dark spot on one of the walls in our bedroom just now. I thought it might be mildew/mold so I touched it to see if it was wet or if the wall was just stained. My hand went through the wall. Now, my hand is numb and my wrist hurts.

I'll get a better pic tomorrow but this is the wall my hand just went through. That wrinkling you see goes down a good foot to foot and a half. That whole wall from the left side of the indent you see to the part behind the bookshelf moves.