(As usual, you can click on the pictures for the gory details.)
Nope... it's not pretty.
(Our personal Albany Park flood story, complete with pictures, starts at Albany Park Flood- Record-breaking Chicago rains. )
Paul's Natuzzi leather sofa was indeed very comfortable and very attractive. It was comfortable for sleeping as well, as I fell asleep on it many times while he stayed awake watching something on T.V. Some nights when I just couldn't sleep and I was up tossing and turning, I'd take my pillow and a blanket and I'd manage to fall asleep on that sofa.
The sofa wasn't in great shape as Paul's cat, the cat that disappeared this year, had occasionally used the sofa as a scratching post. But it still looked good and it was comfortable. He'd had it for about ten years, several years before I met him, and he really loved that sofa.
The sofa was completely underwater during the Albany Park flood, and afterwards it was completely waterlogged. I could barely push the thing a few inches so that I could cut the rug out from under it. It wasn't going to be moved up the stairs, so the obvious solution was to break it up and haul it up in pieces.
Two of Paul's coworkers volunteered to come over a couple of weeks after the flood and do the deed. I found the axe and a hammer or two and they set to work.
The Death of the Natuzzi leather sofa in pictures
Boy, it would be great to start with a picture of the leather sofa in its glory, but I couldn't find one. Maybe some other time.
Here is the sofa underwater, to the right with the blue pillow on it:
Here it is, full of mold, with futon leavings drying on it:
In the process of being taken apart:
All that is left.. what couldn't be carried out was swept up into contractor bags:
Adios, Natuzzi leather sofa... Another victim of the Albany Park flood bites the dust.
(Next part of the Albany Park Flood Story: December Chicago Flooding: High anxiety time )
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