In all the excitement, of the great ticket I had serious flooding in my house with this storm.

[NNadir]

It's probably the worst since hurricane Ivan or Sandy.

It does seem there's going to be a lot of stuff thrown away, but I'll be optimistic and call it "decluttering."

A drain got clogged with debris; we have roads closed all over the place.

[yankee87]

1. Good luck

That sucks. Got hit with tornado and rain here in Cleveland

[pat_k]

2. So sorry. . .

but great reframing!

Best wishes for a rapid recovery when it is all over.

[Dear_Prudence]

3. So sorry

I just heard a report on the flooding. Glad you are safe, but what an awful ordeal for you.

[blm]

4. Sorry, bud.

Been there. Not fun.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Sorry to hear you have damage.

[SWBTATTReg]

6. I'm so sorry to hear this. I wondered w/ the heavy rains, that such things would happen.

Hopefully most of the flooding was in the basement. If not, that perhaps it's receded by now, and most things will dry out. You do have a good attitude w/ this...calling it decluttering and perhaps a good time to get rid of some stuff.

I've, w/ the heavy rains we had in STLMO last year, flooding in the basement, but when I moved into the place 11 years ago, this happened back then, and thus, we were aware of the potential for flooding ever since then. And last year, it paid off, the flooding, while it did get into our basement (1/2 foot or so), it didn't damage anything, as everything was up off the floor a bit, and thus didn't get damaged or wet. Thank God for small miracles.

My best to you, hopefully the damages won't be too much.

[Solly Mack]

7. That sucks. Sorry about that.

Productive decluttering!

[4dog]

8. You have enough "sorries,"

but I feel every confidence that you will manage to find ways of improving things.

[TBF]

9. The same thing happened here w/Harvey, just sat over the city

and while we normally can handle tropical rainstorms, it was like 48" of rain over a couple days where we are south of Houston. We were lucky we were ok in our neighborhood, then spent time helping everyone else.