(Our personal flood story, complete with pictures, starts at Albany Park floods-- Record-breaking rains. )
This morning was a perfectly beautiful mid-September morning in Chicago. 70+ degrees, sunny, not too humid. Perfect. The blooming roses, the perfect lush September flower beds, the ripening tomatoes bely the chaos of the inside of our home.
We've documented all of the mess, and now it's time to clean.
But where do you start? I walk from room to room, up and down, and don't even know what to do first. I actually have less energy to do anything today than yesterday, the first day that all of the water was out of the house. Why is that?
But we need to make the upstairs livable. It will be home for us for awhile, as we have no idea how long it will take before we can get the basement fixed. I've heard that we will have to replace the water heater and the furnace, as they were under water. Where will we find the money for that?
Our home, our port in the storm, doesn't feel like too much of a haven these days.
(Next part of the Albany Park Flood Story: Albany Park mid September. )
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