Yesterday SUCKED!

Ok, we'll ignore the part about me feeling lousy. We'll pretend I was 100% healthy and feeling good. Yesterday still sucked.

We awoke to an inch and a half (38mm) of water on the ground floor of the house. That might not sound too bad, but that's a little deeper than the carpeting downstairs. It'll all have to come out.

Right now I'm waiting for the plumber who is at least 1.5 hours late. The flooding was caused by some floor drains that "didn't". Seems all the rain went under the back door instead of down the piping to the lake.

And then...... and then.....

And then Ed decided to drive his car to work. Trouble was, he sorta forgot to pay attention to the 18 inches of water across the road about a mile from the house.

Just FYI, a BMW 740i has an air pickup right behind the passenger side headlight. Apparently that headlight went under water at some point in Ed's excursion. Yup. The motor sucked pure ditch water right into the intake.

He locked the motor hydraulically. Water is not compressible. For those of you without a ton of mechanical savvy, he "broke it big time".

Of course, there is no insurance that covers "I drove it into a foot and a half of water".

Any of you want to buy a BMW 740i Sedan in good shape other than the motor? (I was actually looking forward to making the car reach 'vintage' status in concours condition, but alas....).

So that was yesterday.