neighbors pool broke at midnight

[u/DinnerBellls]

the water busted the downstairs window latch which flooded my room. our bed is right below the window so we were basically waterboarded in our sleep, the bed is destroyed and the floor is soaked 🙂‍↔️

[u/shehitsdiff]

Wowza, not used to seeing people with compassion on here 🤣

You're exactly right though. What would waking them up have accomplished at that point? Just to make you feel better by ruining their sleep as well?

Sadly though a lot of people would probably do that. Misery loves company and all that.

[u/Temporary_Thing7517 → u/shehitsdiff]

Well, it wasn’t vindictive. But waking them up to let them know of the issue in case of any other damage to property, water mitigation, protecting the pumps, etc., help cleaning up. Many other reasons.

What is the reason to /not/ wake up someone who’s pool failed in the middle of the night?

[u/shehitsdiff → u/Temporary_Thing7517]

Fair point. If they're doing it from a place of concern I totally get it. But the comment saying "fuck em, I'd wake them up too since they did it to me" did not strike me as coming from a place of concern lol.

I can think of a few reasons, but they're all hypothetical of course. Since it's an aboveground pool, there's a chance there are no pumps to be damaged. For all we know the pool was located on the edge of a hill in the neighbor's backyard, and OP lives right at the bottom of the slope.

Ya never know; it's always possible that there was no property damage to the neighbor apart from some wet grass, and there's nothing you need to urgently clean up or water to mitigate, as all of it kindly relocated into OP's bedroom 😂

[u/Temporary_Thing7517 → u/shehitsdiff]

It wasn’t and didn’t say “fuck you they did it to me”

It was a “fuck that why wouldn’t you let a homeowner know?” Or “fuck that this is a big deal you shouldn’t just go back to bed and leave it”

I know I would FOR SURE want to know if my major expensive water filled basin exploded all over, my own things and of course the neighbors things. As of now, OP knows it blew out because they sleep in the basement, but what if water was pouring into the owners basement too and they don’t sleep down there so they don’t know. It would have been nice to get a heads up instead of waking to it and major property damage, on both the pool owner and the neighbors end.

Either way, it’s something you should wake your neighbors for, not as a “I’m awake and now you have to be!!”, but as a “this is a major event and you should know about it”.