And the heavens opened up...

[daemonluna]

... and there was water. Falling from the sky! And the kitties said, water's not supposed to fall from the sky! (They're indoor cats, what can I say.) Inside! Water falling from the inside sky! As in, y'know, the ceiling.

So we got home last night and found out that the guy above us, his dishwasher or something overflowed, and we had a lovely lake right in front of our kitchen. The good news was that there was no water damage to anything other than oh, the ceiling. The walls. The floor.

We were thinking okay, we've got it mopped up, it could have been worse.

And then there was more water falling down. At 7:30 this morning. And then it dripped a lot, and the screws holding up the stupid track lighting came loose and it was dangling from the wires, and our landlady came and took pictures, and there were many complications because the apartments above us are condos and nobody could get ahold of the guy with the overflowing dishwasher even though the fire department came and had to break down his door. And much more water decided to come gushing out of the ceiling.

Whee. And now it's 11pm and our landlady and the maintenance guy and the condo people have all gone. Apparently the plumber is still up there, because we can hear somebody thumping pipes and sawing holes in the floor. If it means our ceiling stops leaking, I'm all for it.

We've got most of the water mopped up again, which is good because the cats were pretty sure that they didn't want to go anywhere near it even to get to the kibble. (Trout was pretty sure that his feet would shrink if he got them wet. Really, he's pretty sure. Mind you, he's also pretty sure that the kibble monster comes and eats everything in his dish when he's not looking, and that he still fits perched on your shoulder, all eighteen pounds of him.)

In a complete and random change of subject, I've got a new Charles De Lint book in my waiting-to-be-read pile. Heeeeee. Spirits in the Wires. I'm looking forward to it, and hoping that it's better than the Onion Girl. Which was really good, but not as good as his best stuff, which was disappointing because it was about Jilly Coppercorn, who's one of my favourite characters.

All I can recall about the new one is that it's about Christy and Geordie (brothers, Christie is a folklorist and Geordie is a musician and a busker) and Geordie's girlfriend Saskia, whose origins are murkily indeterminate but somehow connected to a computer system. And there are problems with said system--possibly some sort of hostile takeover--and Saskia disappears. I think.

But I have to read some more of my overdue books before I can get to that one.

Sawing noises from the ceiling have stopped... this sounds promising... Want to sleeeeeeep...

Comments

[zoi-no-miko.livejournal.com]

Ouch... *winces, feels sympathy-cold-and-damp-ness* O_o;

[alessar.livejournal.com]

Any kind of water drippage that actually gets through your ceiling should be reported immediately...because it always increases. I had a problem in my first apartment. I found that there was water on the seat of my toilet. I tried putting a plastic cup on it and I realized everytime my upstairs neighbor showered, enough water was coming through the fan above to fill one of those large "mega size" drink cups. I had to bitch at maintenance twice because they didn't "get it" the first time. So I left the cup and emphasized it seemed the neighbor got home at 5:30 and always took a shower and the leaking began then...

[gbeans.livejournal.com]

I think Trout's onto something. Don't let her fool you Trout! There *IS* a kibble monster who eats all you food and the cookies in the cookie jar! How else do they disappear so fast? ._.;

[dine.livejournal.com]

the kitties are right - water's not supposed to fall from the inside sky. glad you got it reported and hopefully they'll fix things quickly; the last thing you need is the ceiling falling in.

I've also got Spirits in the Wires in my "to read" pile - I generally like his writing, although lately I've been a little less satisfied with some of the most recent titles.