At 7am on Saturday morning I woke up to our cat, Rueben, meowing up a storm. I figured he was hungry so walked down to the kitchen to feed him and low and behold our kitchen floor was a pond of water with pretty gleaming reflections of the the sun coming through the windows. There was a hissing sound coming from the back of the refrigerator. As I got closer to inspect I noticed a fountain of water streaming through the air from the back of the refrigerator. I pulled the refrigerator away from the wall and revealed the source of the problem. Our ice maker tube that feeds the water into the refrigerator had a little tiny hole in it and must have been leaking ALL NIGHT! First thing I thought to do was find the MIGHTY PUTTY to stop the leak.

I ran down the stairs to our finished basement (Surprise #2) I was greeted by even more water that was falling from the ceiling and had been collecting ALL NIGHT! I sloshed through the water and ran back up 2 flights of stairs to our bedroom and woke up my wife, Anne-Marie. Now the two of us were in a new homeowner panic of what do we do now. After some coaching from my father on the phone I shut off the water main and we were able to asses the situation better. After several hours of sucking up water with the wet/dry vac we were in a more manageable state. In case you’re wondering we also made sure to feed Rueben.

All in all we were pretty lucky we just have to spend a lot of time drying stuff out. I plan on taking the week off from the comic to reorganize my studio (which is in the finished basement) and get back on track for next week. I think I might install floaties on my computer and drafting table.

So, in the words of one of my wife’s colleagues,

“That really sucks, but luckily so does the wet/dry vac!”

-Mike

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