Joys of home ownership

Turns out it was a blessing in disguise that our flights were cancelled this week. Monday morning Brian sat down at the computer desk to check our flight status and felt some water under his feet. Upon inspection we found more and more wet spots so we moved furniture out of the way and started pulling up carpet. This is what we found.

It's dripping in from the roof into the wall and then is seeping in at the floor. We don't see any wall or ceiling damage so it's just coming in through the floor - for now at least. Now all the carpet is pulled up in Vince's room. The water is leaking in the entire length of the wall from the window to the closet. We talked to the neighbors and found out they're experiencing the same thing. Out of the 25 townhomes in our community, we know of 8 having these issues. I'm sure when people get home from their vacations the list will be longer. Thankfully we were here to move furniture out of the way! It would be terrible to come home to so much damage!

We next found water dripping from the heat vent in the living room ceiling. It's hard to see but there are 5 drips from the vent.

This is one evening worth of accumulation. A contractor was here yesterday to break away the ice dams which are apparently causing all the problems (actually as Brian keeps telling everyone, it's not the ice dams but the holes in the roof that are the problem) so hopefully all the drips will slow down and/or stop.

This is the floor in our bedroom which is right above the living room vent. We did find some water starting to accumulate in here as well but it doesn't feel as wet as Vince's room so we haven't pulled up the carpet yet. We definitely are monitoring the migration of wet carpet though! We'll keep you posted.

All this, and a million calls to State Farm, and we still haven't heard from the adjuster to get the green light to start getting this all fixed! Hope all is well everywhere else and we'll keep you posted on our latest adventure...