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Old 06-28-2018, 07:52 PM   #1
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Unbelievable

We left on our summer cruise to the Chesapeake on Monday. We decided to have our regular scheduled house cleaners come in on Thursday for a final clean and then they would be postponed until we get back.

Got to our anchorage this afternoon, put down the hook and I settled in to watch the England World Cup game.

Phone rings, It is our cleaning company. One of the cleaners knocked a print off the wall in a bathroom and it severed the water supply for the toilet. We are not yet sure if they did not notice it at first or just didn't respond quickly enough to the problem, but by the time they called us and we got our neighbors over there, the bathroom, the two wood-floored bedrooms at that end of the house, and the hallways were water logged.

I was able to direct the neighbors to the water valve shut off. They then brushed as much of the water out through the garage as they could, dried up as much as they could, and got an industrial sized heater in.

Another neighbor, who knew that we were on our trip, then texted us to ask if we had people at our house because the garage door was open. We explained what as going on and thanked them.

Meanwhile the cleaning company kept their cleaners there and got two supervisors over. They admitted responsibility and we are now waiting to see what tomorrow brings. We may leave the boat at Bald Head for a few days, rent a car and head back home.

Thank the good Lord for reliable, responsible and willing neighbors!
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