I’ll bet I’m not the only person needing an emergency plumber today, after the last few days of crazy temperatures. A pipe burst in my pantry, must have been spraying for a good while before I woke and heard it. The pantry is a step down from the kitchen, so the kitchen wasn’t flooded. The floor back there tilts back too, so the water collecting there was running down the cracks in the floor to a corner of the basement, where there’s stone. So it could have been worse.

I remembered where the shutoff valve was to the house water, and closing that stopped all the spraying. I’ve been cleaning for a while and it’s somewhat better, but the whole pantry should be chopped off the house, really. It’s so old and rotten.

Getting by on water in bottles and gallons from the store. Haven’t heard anything back yet from my landlord about the plumber.

Kind of caps off a dismal holiday.