Well last week I was back at Coca Cola for another round of video shooting. That was 9 days after we moved into our new apartment.

Today, after taking a much needed break over the weekend, I powered thru a butt load of work and then had two dinner meetings with client / potential client.

Then...

Well...

After dinner we had a new adventure. We got back to the apartment to find about 50 people and two fire trucks outside the building. randomuser raced up to the 7th floor (while I parked) to grab Stella (our dog) who was inside. Everything seemed fine.

We hung out outside for a bit until the fire guys came downstairs and told us it was all clear. We were still unsure what was happening. Drill? Minor toast burning incident?

When we get back in the apt there's a puddle in the kitchen. At first I think Stella peed because we had left her alone for a few hours. But as we look the puddle gets bigger and bigger and bigger and stretches all the way around the apartment.

Turns out the guy upstairs lit his kitchen on fire, leading the 8 sprinklers to dump what seems like 1000000 gallons of dirty water all over the place, covering his place and the hallway in about 6 inches of water and leaking down into our apartment, and the 3 surrounding apartments, with another few. We didn't get hit as bad as the guy next door.

So.. We've spent the last 4 hours toweling and mopping and cleaning and unplugging and waiting for our turn with the wet vac. It seems like we got lucky and it missed our computers and TV and everything.

On the plus side, we've met all of our lovely neighbors and management and the janitors responded quickly. Nothing important (us, dog, computers, or hard drives) were damaged.

What can be learned? You can never have too many towels (we have like 15 and they're all soaked) Back up your important shit and keep that backup far away from your computer. And, that renters insurance is probably a good little investment if you have idiots above or around you.