No Roof + Rain = LEAKS!

Well here's some pictures of the fiasco at the Harris house today. Last weekend we got a buncha people to get out and tear the roof off the house so we could put on new shingles. My dad also wants to add a few things to the porch area, so they haven't started putting the shingles up. Well, the season of no rain had to come to an end, and this afternoon the rains came down and there were leaks EVERYWHERE in the house. The worst of which was the washroom. The archway between the washroom and the staircase was like a curtain of water. We had to put ice chests down to catch the water because bowls just weren't big enough.

This is a picture of the archway up close. You can't see much, but if you look along the base of the molding you can see these little glistening drops of water. This was taken AFTER the curtain of water. WHAT A MESS!!

Then of course there was the windows. Every window on the west side of the house had water coming in at the molding.

Then finally the basement. This was from a pipe that went straight outside. We hadn't bothered to seal it off yet, and it led straight into the basement where the kids play. There was one other leak that I didn't get a picture of. The southwest bedroom where the Bailey kids sleep (the family that's staying in the Harris Boarding House right now). There was water coming out of the LIGHT FIXTURE!! Yeah! It was running like a faucet right outa the light fixture in the ceiling. I didn't turn the lights on in that room. SCARY. So we put a bowl in there too. And lets not forget the window in there was also leaking, just like all of them on that side of the house. Always an adventure at the Harris house! The human mind is a funny thing, because my parents came home from work and covered the roof with tarps. But by the time they were done, the storm had passed and the damage was done. I guess the roof will be ready if it rains again though. (Heaven forbid that actually happening though....that's all we need is to wake up in the middle of the night with water dripping on our foreheads!!