Rainstorm in the Kitchen

I'm pretty darn tired today. And the reason for my sleepiness started at 2:30am...

My roommate comes in my room. I'd kind of heard her up and moving around, but I was still mostly asleep and thought that maybe it was already morning time. She sounds very worked-up and says, "Where is the phone number for emergency maintenence?". Oh no. THIS is going to be a lot of fun. So I'm still half asleep, but I tell her where it is and I lay there as she leaves the room trying to find my bearings. I listen very closely, and it sounds like its raining. But I know its much too cold outside for it to be raining. What is that noise? I get out of bed to investigate, and as I'm walking past her room I notice towels all over the floor, but I don't stop because she is downstairs and that's where I hear the "rain". As I come to the bottom of the stairs and round the corner to the kitchen I see that it is, in fact, raining in our kitchen. Water is pouring out of the light fixtures in the ceiling (by the way, she has turned the lights on while this is happening). So we decide that maybe those lights shouldn't be on. At this point the shut off valve to the toilet has been turned off, so the rain begins to subside. Then we spend the next 30-45 mins sopping water off the floor.

During this sopping time, I learn some facts about the situation...

The roommate got up and used the restroom around 1am, then went back to bed. Around 1:30am, she hears a funny noise and gets up to investigate. I guess I use the term "investigate" loosely because she just went and stood outside her bathroom door to listen to the noise. She didn't turn on the light; she didn't enter the bathroom. Her analysis was that it sounded like there was something in the vent. (NO sh*t, Sherlock, that'd be gallons of water pouring into our ventilation system.) After deciding it was just some weird noise in the vent, she went back to bed. 2:15am rolls around, and now there is a new noise (I guess this is the point when it started raining in the kitchen). She gets back up and goes to stand outside the bathroom and listen again, but this time, she steps into wet carpet. NOW she thinks to turn on the light. Oh crap! Now the water gets shut off, and this is when I enter the picture.

Emergency maintenence is called, and the guy is a complete waste of space. First of all, and I know the average person is too stupid to know to do this, he asks if we've turned off the valve to the toilet. After we say yes, he then asks where all the water has gone. Well, Numbnut, it was raining in our kitchen, so pretty much everywhere. He says that since we've turned off the water and soaked up most of the water on the floor, there's not much he can do right then, so he'll be out first thing in the morning.

8:30am rolls around, and Numbnut shows up at the door. Now, the roommate had decided to put the hose back into the toilet at 2:30am, so when the guy shows up, he looks at it and says, "It looks okay to me". I don't think he even touched it. Then we are asking about having the carpet pulled up outside the bathroom. "Oh, I'm sure if they (the normal maintenence people) suck that up with a wetvac it'll be fine, but I don't do that". MORON.

Hopefully our kitchen ceiling doesn't collapse.