It's Raining.... In Our Closet

PREFACE
Our apartment has three bedrooms, and the back bedroom is a large master bedroom with its own bathroom.

THE STORY
Friday night Kyle and I were able to go to the BYU basketball game. Yippee for date night! When we left home, all was well. When we got home, I made my way back to our bedroom to start getting ready for bed, only to find water dripping from the door frames of our closet and bathroom. While I rushed to get buckets to catch the water, Kyle ran to the upstairs apartment to find out what was going on. Luckily for us, two of the three girls had just gotten home from Thanksgiving break an hour earlier. But since neither of them lived in the back room, they did not know there was a water problem. They rushed back to the room to find the bathroom faucet running and a mini pond covering the carpet and linoleum nearest the bathroom.

Apparently the u-bend of the sink had a large leak, so the girl who lived in the room put a bucket underneath to catch the water. Somehow she managed to leave the faucet ON when she left in the morning (don't ask me how), and the bucket quickly overflowed, leading several hours later to a pond in her room and rain below in our room.

Fortunately we found the dripping in our room fairly quickly, so our carpet did not get too wet, but I am surprised two days later to still feel some slight dampness. We can see some bubbling in the seams where the wall meets the ceiling. The damage doesn't look like too much, but I do worry about mold problems if it takes a while to get fixed . Although we are not worried about the cost of repairs since it wasn't our fault, we are not excited for the certain future headaches of dealing with insurance companies and repairs. What a pain.