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She's taking on water!

It's been a while since I've had to think about mathematical equations and such, but I very recently discovered a formula to brighten your day:  hole-y roof + torrential downpour = working on day off.  You like?  Me, not so much.  But squeegee-ing is kind of fun, especially in Shoes.  Fabrics and crafts.  The photo lab. The backroom.  Ugh. The backroom.  What a mess.  We pulled at least six shopping carts of sopping wet shoes from the salesfloor.  There were probably four carts from infants.  Thousands of dollars were lost in damaged large-screen TVs.  All but maybe one of our photo-processing machines, including two brand new ones, are swimming and they're not water-anything.  Awesome.  The hopefully-legal immigrants who've been repairing/replacing the roof the past several days and since o'dark thirty this morning?  Apparently, they didn't anticipate this afternoon's thunderstorm.  Poor guys.  They wo...