Water-logged....

We've been getting enormous amounts of rain lately. It started Wednesday night and poured all day Thursday, and all night that night. Like 36 hours of thunderstorms. We kept ourselves busy all day yesterday cleaning bedrooms and organizing kid stuff. Shawn was home last night so we just kind of hung out as a family. I mentioned to Shawn how grateful I was to be living in a house instead of having to be out in the downpour. I believe I also mentioned how grateful I was we lived on ground that would drain and how nice to have a sum-pump to pump out the rest of the water. Famous last words. Ethan woke me up this morning at 7:45 with "the basement floor is all wet". Nice. I ran downstairs to survey the damage. For some reason the sum-pump wasn't pumping properly and we were covered in at least 2 inches of water. Everywhere. Ethan found one of his Wii remotes on the ground and burst into tears. I then followed suit. Nothing but two crying babies sitting on couches so we wouldn't get our feet wet. I paged Shawn because I didn't know what else to do. One of the docs said he could come home for a little while to help, but they really needed him today. Surgeries were stacked. And, he leaves to moonlight for the weekend tonight at 6. And, our good friends the McManus' were coming into town to stay at our place for the ward reunion tomorrow. How plans change. For the 2 hours Shawn was home he sucked up a lot of water with the shop vac. He even pulled up half the carpet. It was too wet and heavy to move so he left it in a heap on the floor. The kids helped carry all the toys and stuff not on shelves upstairs to dry. Jackson is having a great time scraping the carpet pad up at the end of the stairs. He's loading it into his dump truck then dumping it into a garbage bag. At least he's entertained. Now my basement is covered in wetness, my upstairs is covered with what should be downstairs, and all I want to do is sleep. I'm a bit overwhelmed to say the least. I did talk to a company in town that cleans up messes like this and they can come tomorrow to dispose of the carpet. The insurance adjuster and I keep playing phone tag, but at least I am in the works of talking to him. Hopefully by tomorrow night all the soggy carpet will be out the window (literally) and the cement will start to dry. I'm praying that we can have everything back to normal before this baby is born.