Woodie, my sincerest feelings are with you.
I can imagine how you felt at first (SHOCK!
), and how you feel now (after rage
back to sadness
and then slowly rising optism
...) I'm surely glad to see that your humour already is coming back.
I made a similar experience a few years back. Only that not a RR layout was inundated, but my library with quite a few antique books (some of them printed in 1790 or so). As you surely saw with your own magazine/book collection, soaked books are in most cases a complete write-off. The culprit in this case was a burst hose of a washing machine, too!
Concerning the salvation of your model RR stuff, I can't add any new advice. Almost everything has been said by many of our friends at The Gauge.
But ONE additional viewpoint I'd like to add to the discussion. I learned it by my own experience:
- Of course (hopefully!
) the hoses to all your washing-machines and dishwashers connect to a FAUCET at the end of the metal water pipe, and not to the pipe itself. If not - HAVE ONE INSTALLED!
- And when you don't use that machine for more than a day, or when you are away for some time: TURN THE WATER OFF! Otherwise the hose is under constant pressure - and that simply calls for bad luck!
You'll never know how many flash floods you prevent this way - but surely the first you would experience (after forgetting to close the faucet) is just one too many!
Woodie, I wish that your life returns to normal again as fast as possible!
Ron
