I previously described one ceiling step-through that was traumatic in the immediate time frame, but there was another that was less immediately problematic but more destructive a bit later. As you will remember, showers were forecast for Saturday after we put on the tarp. We got the tarp up and thought we were set. We went to see one of Toby’s performances in the Living Christmas Tree. It poured while we were gone. When we had returned from Toby’s show, we came home to a soaking wet kids room. Examination of the problem showed that one of the holes that we had diligently taped up had thoroughly leaked. It also was at the bottom of a ‘valley’ in the tarp, between the trusses. So all the water that collected on that section of tarp funnelled right to the hole, and it drained down onto the ceiling drywall. Now that might not have been *so* bad except that the hole in the tarp was nearly directly above the spot where the ceiling had been stepped through in the kid’s room. If the ceiling had been intact, the water might have spread out over a larger area, and been absorbed by the ceiling drywall, maybe. Maybe not. As it was, the plywood that I had attached to the inside ceiling to keep out the attic insulation served to direct the water into the center of the kids room, away from Lucy’s crib (small blessing). The kids slept in the office that night and the next and the next and the next… There was no standing water, the water had soaked into the carpet and the padding. Over the next few days, we worked on sopping up the water with our little hand steam vac, towels, and we even rented a full size steam cleaner thinking that we could suck up the water. In about 3 days the carpet dried to the point where it was nearly dry to the touch. But the room stank. It reeked to high heaven. I made the decision that the carpet had to come up. I cut out a 10′ x 9′ section of the carpet and pad. Although the carpet was mostly dry to the touch, the pad was still soaked. I was able to wring water out of the pad. Once the underfloor was cleaned and dried (I used vinegar), the smell went away completely within the hour. So now the oak floors are exposed in the kids room.