I spent the next multiple hours mopping water up off the floor.
Mother Nature sure is constantly throwing curveballs my way, but if it’s not one thing, it’s another. I can’t tell you how multiple times I’ve been stranded in nasty blizzards, driven through torrential downpours, or lost power because of some unexpected turn of events. I shouldn’t even be surprised anymore when Mother Nature put me through the wringer, and recently, however, I was completely taken aback when a big thunderstorm blew through the part and dumped two feet of water on us within 24 hours. There was nowhere for the water to go, so it backed up and flooded nearly the entire city… One of the places that it found respite was my garage. I walked out one morning to find the entire garage flooded, dank, and humid. this was a major issue because I was storing a lot of pressing belongings in my garage. Immediately, I got out the dehumidifier and blocked it in. I spent the next multiple hours mopping water up off the floor. I had multiple big utility fans that I blocked in and started blowing air around to the garage. I hoped that this air movement would help to evaporate some of the extra water! My saving grace in this whole situation was the presence of air vents in my garage. When the garage was built, the corporation wisely linked it to the central heating and cooling system. This meant I could pump cool, dry air conditioned air into the garage, but by funneling out the overheated and humid air and channeling as much cool air into the garage as possible, I saved myself tons of time and money dealing with my flood detrimentd items.