Day 4 (I Think): Murphy's Law

Woke at 7 to panicked cries: water was pouring in the ceiling underneath where we had done demolition and started construction on the addition. Ran outside in the pouring rain and tried to cover what I could with tarps (we had put tarps up yesterday, but forgot one area). The lightning and rain was unbelievable. We spent most of the rest of the day battling with water from the morning's storm, and trying to fix the tarps in case another storm came through.

Another storm did come through... or more like another five storms did come through.

At around 4:30 the rain started up again, so I jetted home with Eric to try and make sure everything was water tight. Turns out things were pretty far from that. By 5ish when my dad got home we were just trying to push water off of the new floor to keep up with the torrential rain and prevent any more damage to the ceiling underneath. After 20 minutes or so of sponging, siphoning, and sump-pumping the rain finally let up. We started to bring up plywood and create a better covering over the new construction.

The break didn't last long - within minutes the rain started harder than ever, and the wind picked up too - the rain was literally going sideways. I was trucking sheets of plywood up the ladder to Jared when the hail started. That was really the last straw... it was like being drowned all day long until somebody decided that water wasn't enough, so they started pelting me with ice cubes. The chunks of ice were huge, the size of quarter or bigger.

After a lot of work we finally got a better temporary "roof" on the new construction. By this time a bunch of the family was over helping out in the family room, where water was literally pouring through the ceiling. All the furniture had been moved out and there were buckets all over the place.

As things calmed down everybody took a break and relaxed in the soaked family room for a little bit. Then we all went outside to inspect the damage (there was a lot to check out). It seemed like the worst was over. That was when the entire ceiling collapsed...