Adam and I woke up to a loud bang last night. I think I was in the middle of a scary dream because I woke up screaming and thinking my babies had died or Adam had got shot or something horrible had happened. It took Adam at least a minute to calm me down. Finally we realized we had woken up to some loud bang and got out of bed to check it out.
In our hallway we found this:
Yep, our swamp cooler vent just FELL OUT of the ceiling and landed in the hall (along with pieces of ceiling). We just stood there with our two in the morning fuzzy vision and stared in disbelief. Thank goodness no one was standing there.
Turns out there was a water leak somewhere up there that had loosened the wood and screws that were holding it up and therefore it fell.
The hilarious part was that as we looked at our vent on the ground we noticed the back of the vent had a solid shield in it. Apparently it's a piece you're supposed to put in in the winter to block air flow and take out in the summer when you turn it on again. We have been running our swamp cooler for a week and wondering why it's not blowing very hard. I'm willing to bet all that air pressure helped knock it out too.
Oh the things we're going to learn being first time home owners and first time parents all at the same time!
I think that I would have gotten up startled too! Holy cow! So how is it working now? Any better with the air flow! That is really funny!
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