I was in complete disarray last yearwhen we were notified by our local weatherman that we were going to have serious storms.
I thought that the storm was going to be just like every storm that we would get in the midwest! A mild one with a few inches of rain, an occasional tornado warning and large amounts of lighting and thunder, and but not this one.
I should have prepared my condo much more. I didn’t nail wood to the windows and doors, I didn’t close my storm shutters. I should have put sandbags all around my home. I didn’t know I needed to install sandbags since my condo hasn’t flooded in over 15 years when we had a major storm. But I was wrong. When I went downstairs into my basement, there was water about 3 feet deep; The furniture was floating, my floor and walls were ruined and the worst part of it all was that the boiler that was installed just two years ago was submerged in water. Having a boiler in water is a dangerous thing. It’s severely important not to attempt to operate the boiler until it has been upgraded; Operating a boiler in wet conditions can cause it to catch fire and lead to extreme injury like electric shock and potential death. Once I saw my boiler in the condition that it was in, I instantly contacted the local heating and cooling worker. Due to the amount of repair calls that the HVAC company was experiencing they were not able to get to my condo until two afternoons later, and for two afternoons we didn’t have any heat but we did not want to risk touching the boiler whatsoever.