Hello friends!
So an interesting thing happened this morning. I went to check on our old property in South Bloomfield Ohio and when I arrived there's water pouring out of the front door and through the siding like a waterfall. I open the front door and this two story home has 3 inches of standing water throughout the first floor, and you look up, and it's water falling out of all the drywall seems. The drywall is starting to collapse, there's water everywhere!!!! Clearly a line busted when it got really cold a few nights ago.
The more interesting part is the city was supposed to shut the water off at the main in September, as I had requested. I called them, they said they had done this, cool. So I run inside and shut all valves off indoors and call the water department. Within 5 minutes the "main" guy shows up and he is in awe. He opens the water main on the street and wrenches it shut. Then proceeds to have a blank stare on his face and says "I've never seen anything like this, this should have been turned off".
Long story short, they say they take full responsibility and are going to contact their insurance company. I also notified ours.
Is that good enough? Should I be getting a lawyer? We've never had to deal with anything like this. Will their city insurance pay for such destruction? I mean the whole place has to be gutted, new drywall/carpet etc at the minimum, assuming there is no structural damage underneath.
Any advice in the matter would be helpful. . . we are just in shock. Wild times.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twwDoLZbGY8