“Mommy, some of my stuffed animals are wet,” Toby said as he crawled up on to his bed to go to sleep Wednesday night.  Sure enough, upon close inspection of the bottom corner of his bedspread and a few stuffed animals, we discovered that Toby’s bed – very close to a window – had experienced several “drips” from a small leak in the window frame.

“When did you first notice this place was wet?” we asked Toby.  “Hmmm.  This morning when I woke up!” he replied.  “Oh, so this has been dripping all day.  So did you just forget to mention it this morning?”  Since such things are of minimal importance to a 4 year old, Toby shrugged his shoulders and said, “Hmm.  I forgot.”

This sealed the case.  I had to break out the ladder and go out on the roof to inspect.  Mind you this was during a mild and brief reprieve in the driving rain we’ve had since early Tuesday – some 10 or 11 inches in all.

This story is really a continuation of the report I gave Wednesday afternoon – OK after Storm Fay.  Now it seems that more events have unfolded and we haven’t escaped the storm entirely unscathed.  Toby’s window leaked.  Another upstairs window leaked through the wall down onto the ceiling in the foyer.  And then just yesterday – after four solid days of wind and rain – we discovered two small areas of our carpet in the living room were soaked.  No leak from windows or up above to blame on this one.  It’s still a mystery of exactly how “the seep” allowed water intrusion into our carpet but I’ve gotta guess the wind blowing rain at 40mph into the west exterior wall (good ol’ semi-porous Florida stucco wall at that!) had something to do with it.

We’re making repairs today and finally are drying out.  Definitely we’re thankful this was not a serious flooding issue nor even a big inconvenience.  But it does make us have greater respect for these types of storms.  . . . And we’ll be querying Toby for a report more often after rain.