A series of unfortunate events....

When it rains it pours. And it's been pouring for 2 straight weeks. It's depressing and sad and makes it nearly impossible to meet anyone to make friends, and VERY difficult to potty-train a puppy. We're still in settling in mode so each and every day there are a million errands to do... dropping the kids off to school, gym, car shopping, physical therapy, finding the new post office, grocery, setting up phones, picking kids up from school at 2 different times, and on and on it goes. All in the rain. Sideways driving rain that makes it nearly impossible to use an umbrella. You just get home and it's time to take the dog out in the rain to potty. I only have 2 pairs of long pants and they are both jeans. I feel like I am always wet and cold. Jeans don't dry well and after a while you just consign yourself to being wet and damp.
Then this weekend we hit 100 year flood level in the Eastern Cape. The area is being declared a disaster relief area. Huge chunks of road are washed away and sink holes have opened up. Huge areas are flooded. We were glad we live on the top of a hill. Until I saw this about 8pm Saturday night:
Water was literally pouring into the downstairs hall from both downstairs bathrooms. The house was flooding! The cause was the entry way. The drain had stopped draining and a second swimming pool was forming.
We called our landlord stat and found a pump and started trying to pump the area dry. In the mean time water was streaming down the front of the chimney and off the beams in the living room so we were moving furniture to high ground and moving the kids upstairs with us as their bedroom is right around the corner from the flooded hallway. One big happy family.
It was POURING! Check out the downspout in the corner...
Then right in the middle of the action Roxy fell off Teddy's bed and BROKE HER LEG in 2 spots. I am not making this up. We had to take her to the vet on Sunday morning (animals ALWAYS get hurt on the weekends...) and we just got her back today.
She was so happy to see us. I think she thought we dropped her off forever since she was broken, poor girl. She has not wanted to leave my arms since she got home. Poor baby!
She has a cast that has to stay completely dry all the time. I just laughed when they told me that one. What else can go wrong? WAIT - don't answer that!
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