Not the greatest excuse for being late to work..

Here's a sad situation: 6am on a Tuesday morning in Colorado in March, no warm water AT ALL, and of course soggy 70s carpet in the basement. What does that spell? A busted hot water heater. First we tried to shop-vac all the water up. that was futile effort, plus you can imagine the nastiness that was under that carpet. (I know I know, it looks so nice from where you're sitting..) We ended up cutting all the wet part out and throwing it out the back door. And then we spent a day deliberating about what to do. And then, one semi-warm sponge bath later (I boiled water on the stove just like Ma Ingalls), we called a service guy. He got the new one installed in just a couple of hours and we've been back in business ever since. This set us back a cool $1k, which is about $400 more than it would have cost us to do it, but, like I said, it only took him a couple of hours.