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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
*Hugs Z*
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thank you for the hug.
in fact your new avatar has made me feel a bit better, it's so sweet and snuggly.
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Next time, get some sandbags?
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*note to self : stock some sandbags. somewhere. just in case.*
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I found about a meter of snow on my bed one day... (it was on december 31st, actually, don't remember the year...). We were sleeping on the attic and the roof window was open just a peep (we sleep with the windows open year round, I don't mind a cold bedroom). The wind had turned to the east and had picked up, the snow was picking up too and we were downstairs celebrating the new year.
Due to that specific direction and speed of the wind, the snow had been blown underneath the window, right on top of the bed. To show the temperature of the room: the snow hadn't even melted yet 
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i do sympathise, but honestly, i think unmelted snow must be easier to clean up than water.
i had a flood on new year's eve once too : there was a huge tempest in paris in december of... 98 ? 99 ? can't remember. anyway, it tore the skylight window off the top of the roof. since i live on the next to last floor, i didn't notice. but along with the tempest, we were having near-continual pouring rain, and it was pouring right in through the gaping hole in the roof directly over the landing. why the upstairs neighbor didn't report it, i have no idea, but at the time the guy living there was a psychopath so maybe he was just too CRAZY. anyway, the water saturated the upstairs landing, and when it was completely imbibed, it seeped through to my ceiling, and then ran along sideways. new year's eve we had yet another rain storm and when i went in the bathroom to get ready to go to the party, i discovered that the walls had been transformed into niagara falls.
of course, new year's eve, there is nobody who will come and fix anything. and since it was a friday, and the next day (saturday) was a holiday, and the day after was sunday, i couldn't even contact anyone to report it until monday. (i did call the fire department, but they told me they were too busy with people who had lost their entire rooves.
). the worst thing was, since there had been so much damage, that all the roofers of the whole country were backed up for months ; so all they did was put a plastic sheet over the hole. which of course was shredded in the next storm, and the leak continued. it took over one year to get that hole repaired.
edited to add sweetpea's adorable avatar (for posterity) :
