Originally Posted by
cordelli
Yesterday after being out for a couple hours, I came home to a basement covered in a thin layer of water. One of the internal fittings on the water heater had corroded and was slowly leaking water. There was no water anywhere in the morning.
...and that's what homeowner's insurance is for, because we can't anticipate everything.
(on the other hand, it's also why it's a bad idea to store critical family documents in the house's floodplain.)