It's raining, it's pouring

Literally, right into my house.

I went home yesterday around noon to find 2 inches of water standing in my living room pouring in from the nice hole that Hurricane Ike left in my ceiling.

Tuesday, The Blue Roof Program, sponsored by the Army corp of engineers, came out to re-tarp my roof. (Brother in law and his father put a tarp on right after the hurricane)

I should have listened to my gut feeling and said no, but I thought they would just tarp over ones that were already in place.

BUT OH NO THEY DIDN'T!

They pulled the other ones off and replaced them with theirs.

Well they didn't work! You know sometimes I like the sound of water, like at the beach or in a fountain, but not in my living room.

So in my panicked state, I called Hubs and told him to come home immediately. Then I called the contractor, who just happened to have crew in my neighborhood and said he would send them over.

I put a trusty Rubbermaid under Niagara Falls and then go get the Shop-Vac and start to suck up all the water.

While I am doing that, the contractors are in the back yard assessing how they are going to get up on my roof, in the rain, and fix the problem.

About that time a rep with the Army corp of engineers walks up and states he is here to inspect the work done and to see if I am satisfied.

UH NO I AM NOT SATISFIED and the work wasn't done by any one with engineering skills. I then proceed to show him the inside of my house. He is in complete shock! He asked if he could take a few photos for documentation and then states they will fix the problem immediately.

I'm OK with fixing it now. So up go a crew of four workers on my roof to fix the problem they didn't fix in the first place.

Now my roof is completely engulfed in a blue tarp, not a brown shingle to be seen.

And even better, as soon as they finished, it poured down rain. Sheets and sheets of rain were pounding my roof but not one drop came in.

I only wish they could have done that the first time.