Flash flooding

Our town was hit with a storm that dropped about 6 inches of water with in an hour.  Our house should have never flooded but it did.  Both of the kids rooms flooded that night.  Kaylee was not home but Lincoln was and when he woke up the next morning and jumped out of bed he was splashed with water.  He came out and told Matt,"my floor is soaking wet and I didn't do anything.  There is no way my drink spilled and made it that wet". Come to find out the front corner of Kaylee's room was too far under the ground by the dirt collecting there.  We took up all the carpet and dried it all out really well. For the outside to prevent it happening again we had to dig out all the dirt and had Jim come down and help us break up some concrete so that we could put a drain in.  Then we had some drywall to fix in Kaylee's room so we decided to paint that to prepare for putting our house on the market.  Of course Lincoln wanted to help paint so we let him since there wasn't any flooring in the room.  He had a blast and was so proud of himself.  Last but not least was the carpet.  The kids had fun sleeping in the living room the night before. Up until that point they had only their beds in their room so I am not sure if they were just excited that we were getting carpet that next day or if it was sleeping in the living room.  The worst part of all of this is that their stuff couldn't be in their rooms.  It was all piled up in our dining room and kitchen area.  Since I work in my dining room everyday the stuff really started to stress me out.  I just wanted my house back. Another part that was really hard is that it put a damper on our summer.  We couldn't really have people over to enjoy our pool with no room in our house for anyone to walk.

After 5 weeks we are finally able to give them back their rooms.