Uh...there's poop in the shower...

Well...it was a wild night at Willy's!

Today started off like a normal Saturday. I slept in a tad, and then Chris & I made our way into town. Chris treated us to breakfast bagels & coffee at Timothy's (oh bacon, how I've missed you!), and from there we headed to the Prestige Village by Hambly's to view their neighborhood of modular homes, and then onward to a few Open Houses in Pleasant Grove. We saw one that I would live in (Chris wasn't overly enthused), and we saw one that made me very nostalgic for my Nanie's house, but we'd never, ever live there. The modular homes were frickin' gorgeous...and might I add, mini-homes have come a looooong way. We got friggin gypped!

I gotta say, today truly felt like spring. It was supposed to rain all weekend, but we were given a happy surprise when the sun came through the clouds, and shone for the most of the day. I had to take my hoodie off at Prestige because I was too hot! We officially turned off the furnace for the season (*fingers crossed* ...wasn't it last year that we had a fairly substantial Easter storm?).

After home browsing, we took a drive thru Brackley, Cavendish and Rustico, and then a quick change before I was out the door to meet the work girlies at the Gahan for supper. It was long over-due and so totally enjoyable! After supper we headed over to Willy's. Dina is house-sitting there. We'd barely sat. Melissa decided to take a walk-about (the house was a little amazing!), and came back upstairs, happening to mention the floor in the downstairs bathroom was really wet...

Remember it was a fine, warm, spring day.

Remember just a little less than a week ago we had a substantial snow fall. Officially 28 centimeters fell - on top of a fairly substantial amount of snow that had accumulated over a substantially snowy winter season.

Add those two factors together, and you get a fairly quick melt...and when a lot of snow melts quickly, there is the possibility that eventually, the melting snow runs out of places to...er...go...

We all went down to the bathroom to take a look.......the bath mats were sopping wet...thanks to at least an inch of water that had accumulated on the floor. The toilet water level was very high, and it appeared very muddy. The shower drain was bubbling as well, and there was at least 2 inches of water on the shower floor. When the upstairs toilet was flushed the water level just kept rising. What a mess!! And poor Dina...not even her house...and entrusted to be there to ensure it all stayed safe when the homeowners were away. We did our best to sop up the floor with available towels and two mops that we'd found. I decided to call Chris (ever the girl that knows not what to do in a household emergency situation, I go to the 'boy'). He arrived shortly thereafter with shop vac in hand, and proceeded to suction out the water and helped to plug in the sump pump (which, for some reason, hadn't been plugged in??). The muddy water, of course, was not just mud..., confirmed by the discovery of wadded up toilet paper clogging up the shower drain.

So Dina called a plumber, and she called the City (the manholes down the street from the house were overflowing. Apparently, the City had already received 20-some other calls of a similar nature, and there was nothing they could suggest to do but wait it out and hope that it dried up? (WTF??). With a forecast of at least another 4 days of rain.....not looking too good for the City if you ask me!

Moral of the story: It's never a bad thing to be nosy in a beautiful home, and never presume water that has collected on a bathroom floor is simply rain water with a bit of mud in it.