all my ruined stuff

I was heading into work on Friday when I got a telephone call from Indigo Kelleigh, my studiomate.  It seems that the roofers who were “fixing” the roof at our studio did an extremely shoddy job of covering the building before they left on Thursday (Wednesday?  I’m not sure when they’d last done any work) and the rain of Thursday night and all day Friday had poured right on into the building.

I got in a few minutes later, and it was a disaster.  Almost a total loss.  About ten or so finished Jonny Crossbones pages (they’d all been scanned, thank goodness), a few commissions, some other illustration and comics work, and all my art supplies were completely waterlogged.  Water got in under the laminate on my drafting table, so that needs to be replaced, too.  I am extremely glad that I’d taken my Cintiq home for the week, so I could work on an illustration gig there because of the noise the roofers were making.

My bookshelf seems to have escaped mostly unscathed, so my reference and inspiration library is okay.

My housemate/studiomate/hetero lifemate Jon lost all of his art books, all his artwork, and his Cintiq was soaking wet but still seems to work for the time being.

Indigo lost a big box of minicomics he’s been collecting for the last fifteen or twenty years, some books, some art supplies, etc.

And BT Livermore lost a ton of artwork that was hanging on the wall, and a whole rack full of supplies, but was lucky enough that his own artwork was on a rack that escaped most of the damage.

Now we’ve got a couple of garages full of wet art stuff and nowhere to work.  We’ve already started our search for a new location, so hopefully we’ll be back on track soon.

The most frustrating thing about this is that almost the exact same thing happened at the last location Jon, BT and I shared.  Roof taken off without adequate covering, water-damaged studio.  That was just a year and a half ago!  At least that time we didn’t lose anything.  We weren’t nearly so lucky this time.

Let’s just hope this trend does not continue in our next location.

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