The flood...

Dear Nicky,

I couldn't post last night because I was in the middle of bailing out water from the basement. We had a nor'easter come through and it dumped a ton of water on us and the window wells in our basement filled up with water. They leaked some water into the basement, but I caught it in time to prevent major troubles. Unfortunately, it took me all night, literally. I haven't slept a wink since yesterday morning around seven or so. I was in the basement for fourteen hours bailing and running the emergency pump. I saved our butts because there was so much rain the ground was saturated and it just kept rising up out of the window wells, inexorably. It finally tapered off around four or five this morning, after which I began clean duties. You had a rough night because your two-year molars are coming in, which made you extremely uncomfortable last night. Now I'm going to sleep. I hope you get some rest.

Love,
Dad