The Sky is Falling

 We got a call from the Assistants last Sunday night in a panic that the roof had fallen in at the office,  that there was water everywhere.  Of course this got us quite concerned.  As they were describing what it looked like they were going into different rooms of the office.  Oh, there is a leak in the quad rooms as well,  it's leaking it the presidents office,  there's one leak in the board room.  Oh no, the roof has come down in the kitchen as well.   When we got there they said that the lights didn't work in the front entrance where it was worst, so we cleared everything out of the way,  water was coming down and we were catching most of it and the floor was soaking wet.   Once we moved everything, tried the light switch which actually worked and removed the debris, it didn't look so bad although we did find water dripping in the storage room as well that they hadn't checked.  Things always look better in the light.

 I tried to think, who in the Ward could provide some help with plastic and buckets and Br. Lawless came to mind.  He was a God send.   He knew exactly how to plastic things up to contain the water, had great big garbage buckets to contain the water and I had to encourage him to leave so he could get some sleep for his 5 am. work day.     Typical of the Maritimes.  So willing to help.  The Landlord was much less helpful.  Basically, your on your own until morning.

The one large bucket in front I figured would fill-up half full in two hours so luckily we keep an extra bed in the storage room for transfers.   Set the alarm every two hours and had a fun night.  At one point I heard this crash and a flush of water and I thought the roof had fallen in at a different spot.  I woke up in a start and turned the lights on but found nothing.  I found out the next day that this was just the ice breaking up on the roof and the water being released, hopefully out of danger.   I told someone that it was just like having an new born for the night and Sister Harding commented.  "Yes, but you were the one doing the crying"    Good one.                        

The definition of stupid is doing the same thing and expecting different results.    The FM group from the church was very helpful.  They came in the very next day and cleaned the remaining stuff up, vacummed the rugs and the following day cut new insulation and ceiling tiles and installed them all.  I asked,  is the roof fixed.   Response,  we hope so.   Well two days later when it was warmer and it started raining again voila,  The Office Sisters came running into my office yelling that waters is coming down in the reception area.   I gave one of them my camera and told them to take pictures and with my previous training from Br. Lawless created a funnell for the water, removed the ceiling tiles that were previously installed and minimized any damage.  The FM group came by again. I instructed them to take down the tiles in every place where there was a previous leak and put buckets out again.   Once we had everthing in place he looked at me and said.  I will be back in the morning to put the tiles back up.   I said.  "No you won't"   We are leaving the plastic and buckets out for a week or so.  One more thaw to make sure we don't have a repeat.  President Leavitt suggested that I start Harding's restoration services when we get home.