Flooded Fire Alarm!

This morning I was back at the Vanderhoff trailer that I was at earlier this week, and where I will most likely be for the remainder of our time here with this project. We had 5 volunteers, 3 who were here the other day and 2 new people. They are all really nice and know what they are doing, so it's nice because we don't really have to teach them anything, they can just go off on their own and "get things done!" They had to leave at lunchtime though, to head back home to Virginia. It was so cute, because I wasn't there yesterday but they were still at that site, and they missed me (of course! haha) and they remembered how much I love ice cream and especially snickers ice cream bars from the dollar store, so they got one in honor of me since I wasn't there :) After they all left, we were working on mudding and drywalling on our own. I had to pee, and the area we are working in is pretty sketchy, so I made Joe walk to the dollar store with me to use the bathroom. On our way, 2 boys riding around on a dirtbike almost hit us, then drove by again and stopped right next to us and one of the guys said "Hey, where y'all from? Cause I know you ain't from 'round here" So I told him I was from Maine, here with AmeriCorps and working with the St. Bernard Project to rebuild houses. It turned out that he really didn't care why I was there, because he continued with "well if you're looking for something fun to do during the weekends, hit me up on my cell, okay?" Uhhh, suuuuure....that's exactly what I'm going to do...NOT! Haha, so sketchy. Another boy along the way also stopped us in the road to ask us where we got our awesome boots, to which Joe's answer was "the military" and the kid thought he was joking, so he was like "man, I'm serious, I love those boots, I gotta get me some." Then, we finally made it to the dollar store so I could relieve myself and when we stepped out the doors it started to downpour! It actually felt pretty good, but I was scared it was going to start thundering so I couldn't fully enjoy the cool drips of water running down my face. Anyways, we got a ride home from Kim, who is an AmeriCorps State member working for SBP and she brought us to a neighborhood where a few houses literally washed away across the stream behind their houses and you can still see them mover there today...it was pretty crazy to see those abandoned houses across the water, while standing on the foundation...quite an experience. So we got home and showered, then the fire alarm went off all of a sudden, and when we went to look at it, it started dripping water! Then we took the batteries out, and it still beeped! So we took the whole thing down altogether and then noticed that water was pouring out of it! We then turned to see that the wall next to the fire alarm was soaked through and cracked from being so wet and we started to really freak out...so we sent a couple people into the attic where they found a few inches of water covering the floors...apparently what had happened was that our AC had literally frozen, like ice cubes formed around it and shut off...so since it shut off it started getting really hot in here and the ice melted, which caused a flooding of the AC draining thingy....which sent the water through our ceiling and walls! Wonderful! So it has been a pretty eventful evening here at 3409 Judy Drive, to say the least! Later we might go play Laser Tag! Or rent and watch a Red Box movie...either one sounds awesome to meeee! This week totally flew by sooo fast and I am absolutely exhausted, but I want to enjoy my weekend, not waste it away with sleep!