Rain on my Parade

It was a sunny and glorious day until I took two steps into the store on Wednesday morning and heard that nasty squish sound.

My first reaction was that somehow the fire sprinklers turned on, but realized that everything above ground was still dry. I continued walking and found large puddles of water starting from the back all the way to the front of the store. As it turns out building maintenance was testing the fire sprinklers of the building and the drainage system was blocked. So all of that water came gushing into my store, Paul Michael's store and my poor neighbor Brent's apartment.

We're in the process of waiting for the professionals to properly dry the place out. Then we can arrange to have the new floors put in (which I'm hoping won't take more than a week).

I'm always up for a vacation, but this is ridiculous! I'm anxious to start our Halloween window and put out the great merchandise we got in. So, stay tuned...I'll let you folks know what goes on as I know.