The
guy cleaning up the wet crawl space from the flood is done; the furnace
has been replaced. Total cost: $8,600 - $950 from FEMA = $7,750. Car
in for maintenance. This has been an expensive couple of weeks.
Amusing aside: years ago, after watching where people would sit in
someone's living room, I decided that people were least likely to sit on
sofas. So, I when we moved, I didn't move the sofa. We have, instead,
4 upholstered chairs in our living room, 3 of which are recliners and
the other one has a footstool that goes with it. When the FEMA lady
came to see how much disaster aid we would qualify for, she took a look
at our living room, which is CLEARLY a living room, and said that she
couldn't count it as such, because it didn't have a sofa. She called it
an office, even though there is no desk, no computer, and only end
tables. I don't know if it matters, but I found it amusing. I wonder
if I had a sofa in a bedroom, she would call that a living room...