Has anyone ever looked at the fire sprinkler head in your apartment/office and thought that it was your smoke detector? And then while the smoke detector was beaping in that way that tells you it needs a new battery, you accidentally start twisting and pulling on the fire sprinkler in a misguided attempt to change said battery? Well apparently that is exactly what our upstairs neighbor did yesterday and subsequently set off a gushing deluge of high pressure water right into his face and filling up his apartment with about 4 inches of water. That water then started its fun journey down through the floor into our apartment mostly in the kitchen, dining, and entryway area, though one wall in our bedroom did get a nice trickle going.

In the end we now have a sagging and peeling ceiling with several holes cut, drilled, or just broken off to allow drainage. The musty smell of damp insulation is permeating the air and making Katy sneeze. And the floor is wet in several places which is just unpleasant to walk on. Seattle is also pretty much mold central... great.

With any luck though we can pressure the managers of the place to allow us to just move into an unoccupied apartment for the same rent for the remainder of the lease term.