It Could be Worse

Our house is a vortex of dizzying white noise

Roaring industrial dryers and dehumidifiers

upstairs

downstairs

conversation is a challenge at best

hand gestures

lip-reading

and simpleton sign language come in handy

second floor wall and ceiling segments cut out

hall carpet sliced open and lifted for drying

kitchen ceiling section scored and extracted

subflooring, plumbing and electric exposed

when the attic AC pipe runneth over

water streams, undetected, down through walls

bleeding into carpet

and announces itself in the ceiling of the kitchen

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When it rains, It does, indeed, pour!

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{reality: it could be worse, much worse...thankful that it's not}