While trying to put away some spare used bicycle pedals, found this bin full of water!
A few months ago (I think it was in December), we had some very heavy rain.
The water must have been from those storms.
The bin lived in the metal cabinet with shelves in the rear left corner of the garage.
It was in the top shelf and next to the last book case.
The water level is about 3/4 of the way up!
The lid has a tear in it and kinda sags.
So it must have been perfect for catching the water from the leaking roof and funneling it into the bin.
Took everything out so the stuff can dry out.
The bin used to live right next to the spare tires and the Dura-Ace box on the top shelf and hung out over the edge of the shelf by a few inches.
The portion that hung out was under the roof cross-beam.
The water must have come down near the beam and hit the plastic bin lid just in the right spot to get funneled into the bin through the cracked lid.
I checked to see if anything around the bin was water damaged.
Nothing seems to have been wet. The Dura-Ace box and the spare tire packaging is not water damaged.
The stuff in the shelf below the bin (some keyboards and some model cars in boxes) didn't show any signs of water damage.
The stuff that was sitting next to the bin that collected the water also didn't show any signs of water damage.
In a way, it was amazingly lucky that the bin caught all the leaking water!
No water damage on the shelf just below the bin.
No water damage on paper stuff on the lower shelves.
Removed some stuff from the metal shelf unit to rearrange and to check for water damage.
Letting the bicycle parts that were in the bin dry out in the sun.
The stuff didn't look really damaged.
Bicycle stuff is made to experience getting wet (riding in the wet or washing the bike) so as long as it's not salty water, the damage isn't too bad.
In this case, there really didn't seem to be any damage.
On the other hand, anything that was paper in the bin is trash.
I let the stuff dry in the sun then threw it away.
For now, I'm going to put the bin (empty) back where it was before.
So that if it does rain again, it will catch the water & protect everything around it (like it did before)!
