What do you do with your pearls when THIS happens?

[GemGeek]

You know I couldn't be quiet this long without a good reason. Last Thursday, my plumbing burst upstairs and ran through the walls and ceilings.

This is what the downstairs looks like:




You don't want to know what the basement looks like

Anyway, they have these big blowers and dehumidifyers all over and I only just started to worry about my pearls, so I closed off that room and ran the shower for a couple of minutes.

Should I leave some wet towels around in there to compensate for the dryness? Help!

[Kevin Canning]

I wouldn't think a few days of running dehumidifyers is going to really do much to the pearls, but a moist towel would probably keep them more then safe. I'd just worry about having that towel wet to the point where the moisture soaks the thread, which could lead to breakage.

[jshepherd]

Wow. What a disaster! Are you still in the house?

Your pearls will be fine. Just don't point one of those machines at them!

[boo]

Oh, Blaire! How terrible! I much prefer when you are quiet because you are questing after pearly treasure, not enduring a home disaster

[GemGeek]

I'm in the house. The cats have cabin-fever from being locked in a bedroom (albeit a big bedroom). It was my bedroom that flooded. I put Mom on a plane to Kauai Saturday, so she's being spared a lot of the turmoil.

Trays and trays of freshwater pearls of every persuasion are drying up. <gasp> Okay, maybe not, but I worry! Thanks for the fast response and sympathy.

[jerin]

Good morning Blaire,

let me just say how sorry I feel about this disaster happening to You. I had a leak from our dishwasher 10 years ago and we had to open up the kitchen floor and in the basement we had to renow the ceiling and the floor, as it got wet, not very much but still the dryer had to be on for 6 weeks!

I think Kevin´s advice is very good but I think the shower might work in a safer way, otherwise you have to restring all your necklaces, if they get too much moisture. Lovely rooms as far as I can tell! I wish you the very best of luck and the same for your cats too. Poor things, if they are used to roam the house and now they are only having one room I think you have a lot of noise as well!

Let us know how things progress!

[nlerner]

Blaire,

It could be worse !
You all are well and safe and in few days everything will go back to normal.

Think positive !

nora

PS. nice house !

[pattye]

Hi Blaire,

Sooooo sorry to see the photos of your home. I can only imagine how you and the kittys have been inconvenienced. Wishing for you a really good crew to make it lovely again! And soon!

Pattye
so many pearls, so little time