There's just something about our house that does not like for us to go away for long!
Last year, the furnace shut off at some point early during our time in New England (we returned to a house with an interior temperature somewhere in the teens, frozen water supply lines, and water dripping from the ceiling of the garage and freezing all over our spare dining room chairs).
Monday night (Tuesday morning, really), upon our return from visiting family in Albany, I went into the basement to grab something from the office supply cabinet, and noticed a squishy wet feeling under my feet.... I haven't had time to pinpoint the leak, but I suspect that the rain in conjunction with the thaw while we were gone caused some water to seep through the foundation between the garage and the basement. I pulled all of the sopping carpet up so the water could flow to the floor drain. The cement dried quickly (no further signs of water coming in). The dehumidifier is running now, to help dry off the carpet. We were fortunate in that there was no damage to anything that we had stored down there, but there were several things that were within inches of being in the water, including the box containing Heather's wedding dress, the bookshelf full of our lesser-used cookbooks, the computer, and some of the same dining room chairs that were slightly damaged last year.
