The rains came down and the floods came up

And the house on The Rock got flooded!  Unusually heavy rains overwhelmed our drainage system.  Our inside terrace has a drain, but it was blocked and the amount of rain coming down quickly accumulated.  We noticed the water on the floor of the terrace was getting closer to the doors.  Then we noticed that the 3 rooms that share walls with the terrace had water leaking in at the floor level.  The apartment was flooding.  Luie thought this was terribly exciting, but Dave and I were not as thrilled.  Dave and Luie began scooping water into buckets and Summer and I carried the buckets to the bathtub drain.  We estimate that we hauled about 100 gallons of water in about 2 hours.  Our backs are feeling the workout.  The electricity also went out.  Then the property managers came over to help and told us that they would put us up in a hotel.  That we should not have to be dealing with flooding issue.  There were flooding problems all over town.  Fortunately later, the electricity came back on and the property manager was able to open up the drain.  So we didn’t have to pack up and leave after all!