Tropical Storm Fay

Nick and I have never been ones to prepare for a hurricane so when they announced TS Fay, we both just laughed at the government/media attempts to get people to buy stuff for the sake of improving our economy. Shame on us! We didn't realize Fay was going to stick around THIS freaking long. I now realize the hazards of constant rain.

We're experiencing some difficulties in our house. When we moved in, I had the house pressure washed and noticed that there were some leaks on three of our downstairs windows. It hasn't been a problem because they only leak when there's constant, hard hitting water directly on the windows and until now that hasn't happened. TS Fay brought the leaks back. Nick was caught by surprise when our bamboo blinds came crashing down on the floor. It turnes out it's not the window that leaks, there must be a crack on the side of our house because it was leaking through the anchors on the top of the window. The bamboo blinds were acting as rain chains and absorbed all the water- until it got so heavy that the anchors came out of the drywall. Being that neither of us are handy, we really don't have tools to fix stuff around our house. We can't use putty b/c the top of the window frame is soaked. Nick came up with a cheap solution. He folded paper towels and taped them to the holes. He had to change them out every couple of hours but they stopped the water from dripping onto our wood floors. Nick and I both had a moment of regret about the wood floors b/c we wouldn't be so worried if we had tile down but I'm worried if the floors get wet they'll buckle. We're calling professionals to find out exactly where the crack/leak is coming from.

Here's a picture of our make-do patch: