It's going to be a looooong night...

I was watching the Grammy's, and all of a sudden I heard a whooshing sound like running water coming from the bathroom. I thought, "Oh goody, the pipes finally un-froze!" If only I were so lucky! A pipe BURST, and was seeping water into my bathroom from under the sink. I started throwing down every towel I could find, hand towels, bathtowels, a sheet, a blanket even, to try and stop the advancement of water. Half the floor was covered in wet towels, and water was coming into the bathroom below me too.

I called maintenance right away once I saw the water on the floor. While I was waiting for a callback, the man who lives below me came up and knocked on my door, wondering what was going on. We talked for a few minutes, then he went down to call maintenance himself, so they knew both bathroom were affected. He got a callback from maintenance, he would be here in 30 minutes or so. I found out later, the maintenance guy had JUST gotten home from another call when he got paged for our problem. So he had to put his shoes back on and drive all the way back here.

Turns out a pipe in the wall behind the sink burst, and that was causing the leak. He had to shut off the water to the whole building for about 45 minutes or so, until he could cut out the section of pipe and weld a new piece in. He left about 11:30pm. Now I have a mess to clean up, sopping wet towels that need to be washed and stuff thrown out from under the sink cause the water was making the bottom of the cabinet wet too. That stuff is strewn out in the hallway right now, need to get it out of the way. Plus all the water, despite my efforts to soak it up, still leaked under the wall next to the sink and got the carpeting wet in the 2nd bedroom. So once I figured that was probably happening, I had to move the stuff I had in that corner of the room.

Tomorrow first thing, Jack from maintenance (who I've talked with almost daily this past week, lol) will be here with a painter to fix the drywall under the sink. Also, the carpeting people are being called to be here first thing to soak up as much water as they can from the carpeting. From what I hear, the man downstairs from me had a LOT of water in his bathroom. I probably would have too, but I soaked most of it up.

The good news is that none of my pipes are currently frozen! But the bathrooms a mess, so I can't use it yet. I was trying to get some dishes washed this evening, I have all the towels that need to be washed and dried...gonna be a long night.