What a Disaster!

On Monday, I went to pick up Brian's dry cleaning and was gone for about a total of 15 minutes. When I left, everything was perfectly fine. As soon as I started driving, it started raining like crazy outside and hail came and it was all so nuts! So when I got home, I went to our sun room and put Ethan in his toy so that I could bring in the clothes. I turned around and saw that our cabinet above where our computer desk is going to go had fallen off the wall and was shattered on the ground. There was glass and wood chips all the way to the window, which for those of you who have been in my house know that is a long ways. I was so upset at the time I didn't think to take a picture of the mess until after I had cleaned it all up. I tried calling Brian like a million times but he wouldn't answer. Then I went downstairs to see if the rain was coming in our window in our cold storage room. It was and it was also coming in another window that one of the screws wasn't sealed off right or something. It's all fixed now but at the time I thought I was going to have a nervous breakdown. And Ethan could tell I was upset so he was screaming like a madman until I picked him up and loved him. I also wanted to say that our cabinet guy that we just absolutely loath is the one to thank for our cabinet falling. We checked it out a little closer to see why it would've fallen and we noticed he put one screw on the top of the cabinet and three on the bottom. And they weren't even in a stud. Can you imagine the fury which I felt? I very much dislike the man as it is but to find out that he was stupid enough to only put screws in the sheet rock and only put a few in I was furious. And I usually put Ethan in his bumbo right where it fell so the bumbo was underneath the whole mess but its made of rubber so it didn't get hurt at all. But its a huge blessing that I wasn't home when it fell because Ethan would've most likely been in his bumbo. I can't even think about if that had happened. Its too scary and sad to think about. Oh and all the things that were in my cabinet broke. I mostly had candles in there and about half broke and shattered all over the place. I didn't notice at first but when I walked in and put Ethan in his toy, I had walked over all this glass but just thought they were crumbs or something. I took some pictures of the aftermath so they don't do justice to what it really looked like. The worst part of this is that where the cabinet fell on the wood floor is totally scratched up and a huge chunk is missing in part of it. The cabinet also took a chunk out of our wall and banged up the cabinet below that has drawers for our computer desk. Oh well, what do you do? We can't sue him because he has no money and it would totally ruin him and his family and if we called him to replace it, it would just take a year to get a new cabinet because that is the way he works. We're just going to call someone else and see if they can make us one within a reasonable amount of time. Wish us luck!

This is obviously after the mess was cleaned up.

I don't know if you can tell very well but there's a ton of scratches and a huge chunk missing in the floor.

Here's the cabinet in pieces. We may be able to use one of the doors again but as you can tell the other one on the left splintered in half. SO unfortunate!