What a mess

Well, If hubby was trying to find a good excuse to have me clean-up my half of the 'junk' in the basement he has found it. This morning I was feeding David and next thing I know all I hear from the basement was "KATHIE !! GET DOWN HERE NOW!!"
When I am called like that it means 1 of 2 things, we need to get to the hospital STAT (I love using that term.) or it's going to cost us time and/or money.
Well it didn't mean a trip to the hospital, but it did mean that I had to find a spot to put David, clear the way to the main valve for the water to the house and turn off the water to the house. That was at around noon, it is now almost 10pm and the water is still turned off.
Alan had decided he wanted to get rid of some redundant piping, as it was making a mess of the new ducting work we had done for the cold air return last weekend. He cut 1 pipe and got rid of it, great! He did it to another pipe, but the valve was stuck open and with all the calcium and lime in the water over time had 'gummed' it up so it didn't close all the way. He was cutting the pipe and next thing he knows he is getting his second shower for the day.
After 2 trips to the hardware store, turns out we are going to have to try and get the piping so that we can get to some threads (as it's galvanized steel piping) and then add a cap to it. We have all the necessary parts, now we just have to get the joints to decide to loosen for us so we can cap them off.
I think we are going to try and do that tomorrow morning, because we need to have this fixed before Monday, or Alan won't be able to have a shower after work without there being a leak in the basement.
Anyway, with luck we will get it fixed up, and not leaking before the end of the weekend, then I can think about getting other projects done. I'm going to go downstairs for a few minutes to move some boxes so we can work on it tomorrow, then I'm going to bed.
If the snow keeps up Alun will be in heaven tomorrow and I'll have to find some snowpants... supposedly we are going to be making 2 giant snowmen and we'll be needing big carrots for the noses.