Flood Relief

Unfortunately I'm going to be down for the next few days. Our basement flooded once again, this time instead of flooding half way up our calves it reached our knees and destroyed so much this time around. 

We're working with the insurance company as our air conditioner, water heater, furnace, washer, and drier are all completely ruined and will need replaced. My brother's car was also damaged during this as the flooding came up pretty far so his interior is going to need some assistance, and it's very likely there's something under the hood that will need help. We're also working on getting in contact with the city. There's apparently an investigation going on with the city as many speculate these floods were 100% preventable if the city would have just done their job. 

The flooding wasn't even coming from the walls, it was bubbling up from the pipe that's meant to help the water drain and while we do have a sump pump, it was really no match for the water and how quickly it was rising this time. 

Now that we got as much as we could cleaned and we've inventoried all the things that were damaged (with the exception of the larger appliances) we all sat down and made a GoFundMe. Insurance isn't going to cover all the damages this flood has done, and we don't want to bank on the idea that the city paying for any of the damages they've caused. 

You can read more info here: 

https://www.gofundme.com/f/james-family-flood-relief

[b]Alternatively, if you guys want to help us skip the fees of GoFundMe and want to just help directly I have my paypal set up: https://www.paypal.me/am1343 [/b]

Right now we're trying to at least get enough together to fix the air conditioning considering it's almost 100F out right now and we're 3 adults with our 6 pets (4 cats and 2 dogs) 

And no worries if you can't donate, we don't expect anyone to help unless they really want to. But if you can at least share, that would be a huge help in itself. 

We all thank you guys for taking your time to read and share and I'll be sure to update on the situation as it goes on. 

As of right now, we're having a window AC installed in the living room, so at least we can hang out in there to get cooled off. 

Within the hour we'll have someone coming to check out or large appliances and will know what's going on with the AC unit. That's going to be the first thing fixed because it is still VERY hot in our area. 

I'll let everyone know how everything goes with that as we'll be continuously reassessing how to deal with all the damages this flood has caused.