The animals are lining up...two by two!

Well, our great room is currently flooded! Saturday evening I went downstairs to get something out of the laundry room and when my feet hit the bottom of the stairs...splash! At first, I thought my spoiled little brat kitty Zoe had decided to show me "who's boss", but then when Gary came down the other set of steps, same thing---flooded. So, we listened and heard water running behind the wall where our hot water heater is. Yes, you read right. The homeowner that lived here before us had sheetrocked in the area where the door used to be to access the hot water heater and he just put a small grill in the wall for ventilation. Several cuts and holes in the wall later, we found the shut-off valve for the water and the gas and proceeded to connect a water hose to drain the hot water heater. The shop vac wasn't quite doing the trick Saturday night, so Sunday Gary rented a steam cleaner. We used it all day and the carpet is still soggy----guess the 50 gallons had pretty much escaped before we discovered it. The plumber just left with our old hot water heater in search of a new one. Apparently it's a "special kind" (of course! We're the "worst case senario" poster children) and it's more expensive than regular ones. Interesting side note--the hot water heater was original to the house, 1973. Wow! She gave us a good run...guess I can't complain too much. So, I'm looking forward to a nice hot shower...going on 2 days now...does Febreeze work on body odor? ;-) Hope you're having a good day out there.