THE WATER DAMAGE RESTORATION SAVES MY ROOM
Since going away to school, my parents decided that they were going to redo my room and make it more of a guest room. I think this is only because they don't want me to move back in permanently, so they decided to revamp the room so that it was not "my room" any longer. It was all okay with me and so I got rid of a lot of stuff and then packed the rest of my stuff up into boxes and put it in the basement. Well, yesterday my mother called me to tell me that they discovered that there was water all over the basement. Apparently, they had a big snow and as it began to melt, it somehow flooded the basement, and half of my stuff is now water logged. She says that she called someone in to assess the damage, a water damage restoration company, and that they are going to get the basement cleaned up and back in shape. Now, she tells me that she has been through all my boxes and has put what is left into some plastic containers and put them in the attic, but that much was actually ruined, including my old posters and pictures and stuff, and honestly I am heart broken. She said that the water restoration company should be done with their work by the time I return home for break, but that some of my stuff just couldn't be saved. She said that she lost a lot of the stuff that she was saving from when we were kids too, and that it was killing her to see so much ruined and destroyed. Who knew that just some water could damage so much? She said that it must have actually been flooding there for a little while because when she opened the boxes there was mold inside, but she said that with all the boxes piled up down there that she didn't even notice, until the one day when she went down to do the laundry and noticed a puddle on the floor. She said the mold was actually in the walls and that this restoration project was going to be a big one, and that they would have to wait on redoing my room upstairs, until next year. Well, I guess it was a mix of good and bad news, on the one hand I lost my treasures, but on the other hand, I get to hang onto my room a little bit longer, and that will be nice.