As If The Snow Wasn't Enough!

Oh the joys of home ownership!

Friday night, John woke me at 11 pm with news of a leak in our kitchen - water coming through the roof and into one of our kitchen cabinets.

John climbed up on the roof, and found the source of the leak, and was able to get it sealed the next morning.

Unfortunately, we started getting another leak - this time, water started leaking through the ceiling fan/light fixture above the kitchen table.  We thought it might be water left over from the cabinet leak, so we placed buckets, and waited.  However, this morning, Carleigh informed me that, "there's a big bubble in the ceiling".  Water had pooled along a seam in the sheetrock in the ceiling just next to the ceiling fan.  We poked a hole in the "bubble" to drain the water and keep it from spreading.  You can see the "bubble" in the picture below - it was bigger, but shrank up quite a bit when the hole was poked.

Knowing that we were dealing with something much more serious, we called and started the claim process with our insurance company, and we were able to get ahold of a company that does these types of repairs, and they sent a three-man crew out this afternoon.

We now have a hole in the ceiling that is about 8 ft. x 8 ft.  In addition, we have a large section out of the wall in a closet in our master bathroom, that opens into the attic above the kitchen area with the leak.

It sounds like it will be a pretty long process to get it fixed - they are going to do a temporary fix now, and come back in the spring to finish up the repairs on the roof.  Also, we seem to have the same problem in the garage, so we may have a lot more repairs to be done as part of the same insurance claim.

Here are a few more pictures of the damage.  

These next pictures were taken from the closet in our bathroom.

The black on the wood is mold...not a good thing!

Here you can see the "contamination zone" in the kitchen:

And...just to keep you up to date on the snowfall:

The snowplow came by this morning...after the garbage truck got stuck...

Here is the same tree of which I've posted other pictures.  Just to give you some perspective, it is a 7ft. tree, and only about 3 feet of it is showing:

Here you can see the same tree in the yard.  This is looking down our walkway from the front door.


This picture is also taken from the front step - looking to the left along the front of the house.