Check out this story I found elsewhere (from a video game MB)...
I'm quite bitter, my home has been flooded & destroyed..
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No kidding folks.
Sunday, January 11th, the fiancee and I are out driving about, when we get a call from my dad saying there is a water leak in the ceiling heading into my room.
(I live in a condominium, on the ground floor, and there are 3 condo units directly above mine.)
I drive home right away, and there is a fire truck out in front of the building...
As I walk towards the building, there is water pouring out of the enrtance to the building, and I knew this was no little drip. As I'm walking through the hallway to get to the stairs, there is water pouring through the seams in the cement, quite literally like a waterfall.
What I saw when I walked into my home was a nightmare. All the light fixtures in the ceiling had water pouring through them. The air ducts for the heat/ac system had water pouring through them, there was water coming from behind the baseboards of the walls, and later on, the seams in the dry wall in the ceiling had water pouring out of them. I'm not kidding any of you, it was tens of thousands (if not more) gallons of water pouring in through the ceiling into my home. I was standing in ankle-high water and it was getting worse...
I made sure everyone was ok, and I made a mad dash for my room & my collection. Most of my collection was kept in my walk-in closet, and I couldn't believe my eyes. The light fixture in the ceiling was gushing tons of water, flooding the entire closet and the rest of my room. Not really sure what to do, I got out a box of garbage bags (the kind with built-in draw strings), and started dumping my entire video game collection into garbage bags, all 355 games & 15+ consoles... I can't tell you, it felt like an eternity while I was shoving everything into those bags. My collection has HUGE sentimetal value to me, I have games & consoles & accessories I've kept since I was a kid, collected through my teenage years & now my adult life.
I would dump a bunch of games into a bag, put that bag into another bag, and the fiancee would haul them upstairs to the cars. I unplugged all the consoles that were in the entertainment center, dumped them into bags too.
After I got the collection upstairs & in the cars, I sent the fiancee & my dad off to a friend's house while I stayed behind to figure out what was going on & to start punching holes in the ceiling to relieve the water building up.
A water pipe on the top floor froze and burst, flooding 4 condo units starting with the top one, and ending with mine. The fire marshall deemed all 4 units to be unlivable until they would be repaired.
To make a long story short, basically EVERYTHING in the condo has been ruined by water damage. Most of the furniture, the walls, the light fixtures, the ceiling, all our clothing, my bed, blah, blah, blah. My insurance is paying for us to stay in a hotel until the place is repaired, but that is little consolation. Looks like we won't be able to move back in for at least another 4-6 weeks. If I have to stay in that little-ass hotel another day, I'm going to mangle someone
So here I am, my collection is now sitting in boxes at a friend's house, my father & fiancee & I living in a small hotel, and I'm now finding myself devoid of all the little luxuries of home I used to take for granted. PC? Nope. Video games? Nyet. DVD or VCR? Negative. Washer & dryer? Sorry.
Not even having your own bed to sleep in is pretty depressing. Not having a home is depressing because you simply can't kick back and *RELAX* when you don't have a place you call home, and you don't have any of "your stuff".
There is however, a way to view the glass as half-full. EVERYTHING in my closet was destroyed. Not one thing survived the ordeal EXCEPT my collection. I can't explain it, but as far as I can tell, my collection came out unscathed. From the games themselves, to the accessories, to the boxes, they seem to be ok. Eveything else in that closet and my room was ruined. The only thing I'm still worried about is corrosion on the inside of my consoles. I tested the consoles a few days after the flood, and they all worked fine at the time, then packed them all into boxes. I guess time will tell.
I know an internet forum is probably the least sympathetic place to go bitching about your problems or issues, but at least I got something off my chest.
So remember when you have what you think is a shitty day, at least you can still go to a place you call "home", a place where you are the king (or queen) of your domain and enjoy life's simple pleasures. Hopefully I will be able to do the same in the near future
I'm quite bitter, my home has been flooded & destroyed..
---
No kidding folks.
Sunday, January 11th, the fiancee and I are out driving about, when we get a call from my dad saying there is a water leak in the ceiling heading into my room.
(I live in a condominium, on the ground floor, and there are 3 condo units directly above mine.)
I drive home right away, and there is a fire truck out in front of the building...
As I walk towards the building, there is water pouring out of the enrtance to the building, and I knew this was no little drip. As I'm walking through the hallway to get to the stairs, there is water pouring through the seams in the cement, quite literally like a waterfall.
What I saw when I walked into my home was a nightmare. All the light fixtures in the ceiling had water pouring through them. The air ducts for the heat/ac system had water pouring through them, there was water coming from behind the baseboards of the walls, and later on, the seams in the dry wall in the ceiling had water pouring out of them. I'm not kidding any of you, it was tens of thousands (if not more) gallons of water pouring in through the ceiling into my home. I was standing in ankle-high water and it was getting worse...
I made sure everyone was ok, and I made a mad dash for my room & my collection. Most of my collection was kept in my walk-in closet, and I couldn't believe my eyes. The light fixture in the ceiling was gushing tons of water, flooding the entire closet and the rest of my room. Not really sure what to do, I got out a box of garbage bags (the kind with built-in draw strings), and started dumping my entire video game collection into garbage bags, all 355 games & 15+ consoles... I can't tell you, it felt like an eternity while I was shoving everything into those bags. My collection has HUGE sentimetal value to me, I have games & consoles & accessories I've kept since I was a kid, collected through my teenage years & now my adult life.
I would dump a bunch of games into a bag, put that bag into another bag, and the fiancee would haul them upstairs to the cars. I unplugged all the consoles that were in the entertainment center, dumped them into bags too.
After I got the collection upstairs & in the cars, I sent the fiancee & my dad off to a friend's house while I stayed behind to figure out what was going on & to start punching holes in the ceiling to relieve the water building up.
A water pipe on the top floor froze and burst, flooding 4 condo units starting with the top one, and ending with mine. The fire marshall deemed all 4 units to be unlivable until they would be repaired.
To make a long story short, basically EVERYTHING in the condo has been ruined by water damage. Most of the furniture, the walls, the light fixtures, the ceiling, all our clothing, my bed, blah, blah, blah. My insurance is paying for us to stay in a hotel until the place is repaired, but that is little consolation. Looks like we won't be able to move back in for at least another 4-6 weeks. If I have to stay in that little-ass hotel another day, I'm going to mangle someone
So here I am, my collection is now sitting in boxes at a friend's house, my father & fiancee & I living in a small hotel, and I'm now finding myself devoid of all the little luxuries of home I used to take for granted. PC? Nope. Video games? Nyet. DVD or VCR? Negative. Washer & dryer? Sorry.
Not even having your own bed to sleep in is pretty depressing. Not having a home is depressing because you simply can't kick back and *RELAX* when you don't have a place you call home, and you don't have any of "your stuff".
There is however, a way to view the glass as half-full. EVERYTHING in my closet was destroyed. Not one thing survived the ordeal EXCEPT my collection. I can't explain it, but as far as I can tell, my collection came out unscathed. From the games themselves, to the accessories, to the boxes, they seem to be ok. Eveything else in that closet and my room was ruined. The only thing I'm still worried about is corrosion on the inside of my consoles. I tested the consoles a few days after the flood, and they all worked fine at the time, then packed them all into boxes. I guess time will tell.
I know an internet forum is probably the least sympathetic place to go bitching about your problems or issues, but at least I got something off my chest.
So remember when you have what you think is a shitty day, at least you can still go to a place you call "home", a place where you are the king (or queen) of your domain and enjoy life's simple pleasures. Hopefully I will be able to do the same in the near future
*That just fuckin' sucks the left testicle man. Not right at all. Practically every die-hard gamer's worst nightmare.
