Hello Mental Fairy,
Social situations can be exhausting.
And you've suffered a systemic shock that's draining you of more energy that you're maybe consciously aware of... Like the way low-level pain does.
------------------------------------
Do you have basement sump pumps in NZ?
Some houses here do, and they're just a hole in the floor maybe two feet in diameter and 2~3 feet deep. If there's water in the basement for whatever reason, or if the water table rises, the hole fills up until the float switch rises enough to turn on the pump to empty the hole. (It drains up and out to the street).
Ours is about twenty years old, and I'd pulled it out some months ago to inspect and check the label for "proactive" replacement purposes.
Tested everything with a few buckets of water, no problem....
Recently we had very heavy rain for a day and overnight, and I thought nothing of it until I went to the basement in the morning and stepped in a puddle in the corner!
Checked the sump hole and it was overfilled like the sump had failed... Looked further and dammit! The float had risen but then SNAGGED on the side of the hole about an inch too low to trigger it.
Most sumps have smooth walls, either cement or an insert, like a bottomless plastic bucket sunk down below floor level. Our is just unfinished-clay-with-embedded stones and such.
Damn! Never had this problem in twenty years. (Power failures are the usual issue with sumps)
Guess I hadn't re-positioned the pump and float quite correctly and didn't fill it high enough or something....
Lesson learned. Will get a battery backup version, as insurance, and will install an insert, or get a pump with a different float design.
But the upshot of this is, no real damage. (It started to smell of mildew a bit on the third day, but fans and dehumidifiers and Lysol finally did the trick.)
Plus, I got to straighten things up, reorganize and toss a few unwanted items (I'm a bit of a packrat I must admit

)
It's like I got a new room in the house.
----------------------------
P.S.
I LOVE the possums. I want one!
I think they only come as a set.
