We had a doozy of a storm last night!

Several inches of rain fell, all within a half hour, made much worse by the 55 MPH wind from the South.   And, wouldn’t you know, I hadn’t gotten around to weatherstrip the large loading dock door in the Workshop (and it is on the South side of the building)!

I had flooding on both floors!  I was like a one armed paper hanger scurrying between floors, mopping up flooding until I finally came to the conclusion I HAD to plug up or cover the gaps.  So here I was, lightning all around, rain coming down like we were gonna float an Ark, on my extension ladder (fortunately Fiberglass), covering the seams of the door with plastic.  The 2nd story loft door has been covered with house wrap for at least 9 months and, wouldn’t you know, this was the worst possible conditions for the way it was layered.  Who’da thunk that water would go up hill?

This morning it looks like the Workshop has survived.  I had visions of the floors all buckled, but, luckily, the de-humidification from the Heat Pump and the extra fan I had blowing across the floor was enough to dry up most of the moisture so it looks like I got lucky.  It is also clear what my next task is (besides cleaning up debris around the yard) – Weatherstripping!

Update June 24, 2012:

It looks like I wasn’t so lucky after all. The section of floor that was flooded is now slightly scalloped and will probably not restore itself as the floor re-acclimates. Sigh…

Close up of scalloped floor. You can see by the gap under the level that the edges of each board, where the water probably seeped in and stayed, are swelled upward and the middle forms a slight valley.