Exhausting Clean Up

One of the sand bagged sliding glass doors from the great room to the deck

The flooded great room. The sofa is at right in the back ground up on saw horses.

I feel about a 150 years old at the moment after an exhausting day of moving away sand bags and then removing saturated carpet from the great room which measures 25 feet by almost 30 feet. The wet heavy carpet was bad enough, but even worse was the foam padding which had soaked up water like a sponge. While the boyfriend and I removed the carpet and padding, one of his brothers used the shop vac to suck up all of the water that had been under the carpet. We've also used Clorox to wipe out the bottom shelves of all the kitchen cabinets from which we had removed everything yesterday. Although only about an inch of water got in the cabinets, it left a brown silt on every surface it touched.

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We are going out to grab something to eat which some friends and will probably call it a day on cleaning up.