After ten days of rain, we’re seeing the sun for the first time! It’s beautiful!! We thought we were in for 30 days and 30 nights more, and John was preparing to convert the chicken coop and Volvo into some type of safe, boxy but quaint-looking ark.
Our phone is still out, and we have no hot water (the hot water heater and oil burner are partly submerged), but electricity works well and the tables, chairs, shelves and floors of our house are covered in drying paperbacks and soggy hardcovers. We figure we have one more day to get them dry before mold sets in. The once-restored sleighbed, warped wooden shelving and push lawnmower are drying IN THE SUN!
We’re not covered for flood damage, not living in a flood plain, and this wasn’t classified as a hurricane (so no windstorm), but we’re going to be pursuing a damage claim on the basis of ACT OF GOD. So much for separation of Church and insurance company. Does that mean that atheists can’t claim? Good thing John is a devout Presbyterian/Tibetan Buddhist, eh?
We’re cataloguing 100s of our books to identify which were destroyed for insurance purposes, and cataloging my books is something I’ve always wanted to get around to (WATCH OUT, YOU MIGHT GET WHAT YOU WISH FOR). I think we’re about 3/4 halfway through paperbacks, and plan to capture all by tonight. I haven’t really begun the classifying by subject matter part, but here we are as GrendelQ on: LibraryThing.
