The Tragedy!!

[buzzword]

I am an ER nurse and I work 12hr nights. I came home yesterday morning to about a 20g flood on my carpet downstairs. The C-clamp or circle clamp that holds my return tube from my overflow broke off and the water poured out! I do not know how long it had been but so far everything looks OK except my starfish. Luckily I had about 25g of water made up and ready. Lucky that I had good drip loops on my chords. The pump from my sump sounded bad but is working fine with no overtly bad noise from it. It could have been worse I suppose. The carpet is trashed I guess, spent 2 1/2hrs vaccuming the carpet and have fans on it now. Don't know what to do about under the stand.
Oh well just had to vent, it sucks but like I said could have been much worse. Moral of the story: check your clamps every now and then.

 

[fedukeford]

that sucks... why not just glue the pipe?

 

[reef33]

Is the smell gonna ever go away?

 

[crox]

Well I had a similar accident. My return pump unplugged its self and about 5-10 gallons spilled on my floor and ruined two of my fine persian rugs.

My wife wanted to kill me!!!

 

[alyssia]

I also had 20 gallons of water make a huge mess out of my living room, it even ran down the walls into the basement. We had to pull our carpet up to get the pad dry.

 

[buzzword]

fedukeford, yes that is what will happen next week when I get my Calcium reactor.
Reef33, god I hope so! It does have a certain smell to it down there.
Crox, my wife has taken it like a champ! She just said "oh well it could have been worse and now we know we have to replace the carpeting when we move." I was shocked.
alyssia, good idea I may just do that tomorrow. We have 2 industrial fans blowing on it and I got probably 8-9 gallons out when I vaccumed it up.