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This whole mess has been nothing but a pain. But there are things I'm grateful for.
I'm very grateful we weren't in Scotland at the time this happened! Things would have been many times worse. I don't know how much deeper the water would have gotten. We basically lost everything that was touching the floor. But with several more days, even without deeper water, things that were higher up would have soaked up water. And the drywall would have had to come out as well.
If we had been away, and someone discovered the flooding, we would have had to cut our trip short, and then deal with it immediately on returning home.
I'm glad we didn't lose very much. The majority of the things we lost were not valuable, either monetarily or sentimentally. There were a lot of things I did not want to discard in the past, but when I saw them damaged I didn't mind throwing them away. I was kinda glad of an excuse, in many cases. I have way too much stuff, and I needed to cull it.
Losing that stuff was a learning experience, though. It helped me move the line between what I can and can't get rid of. Now I've been myself get rid of a whole class of stuff that I couldn't, in the past. That helps my ability to get rid of that kind of thing in the future. I hope.
Edit: And I'm glad it wasn't sewage water!
I'm very grateful we weren't in Scotland at the time this happened! Things would have been many times worse. I don't know how much deeper the water would have gotten. We basically lost everything that was touching the floor. But with several more days, even without deeper water, things that were higher up would have soaked up water. And the drywall would have had to come out as well.
If we had been away, and someone discovered the flooding, we would have had to cut our trip short, and then deal with it immediately on returning home.
I'm glad we didn't lose very much. The majority of the things we lost were not valuable, either monetarily or sentimentally. There were a lot of things I did not want to discard in the past, but when I saw them damaged I didn't mind throwing them away. I was kinda glad of an excuse, in many cases. I have way too much stuff, and I needed to cull it.
Losing that stuff was a learning experience, though. It helped me move the line between what I can and can't get rid of. Now I've been myself get rid of a whole class of stuff that I couldn't, in the past. That helps my ability to get rid of that kind of thing in the future. I hope.
Edit: And I'm glad it wasn't sewage water!
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