Elfsar Comics & Toys Blog

I opened the store on Friday morning to find that there was a thick musty smell in the air.  Upon looking at the floor I saw a rather large brownish puddle near the mini Coke fridge and I first thought the fridge was either leaking or the pop had strangely exploded.  It didn’t take me long to realize that there was far too much water for that.

Apparently, someone had broken a pipe on the 2nd floor (either moving or bumping into their air conditioning unit) and it had been left running all night.   It came down thru Shoppers Drug Mart (located above us) who suffered an unknown loss of vitamins due to the moisture and then traveled past the large wood beams and  finally pooled to the floor of Elfsar.  Now it dose not take genius to figure out that water and comic books do not agree we each other.  We were fortunate that a majority of the products lost were not that of our saver file customers, however a lot of our product near the wood beams were hit hard.  Anything that was made of cardboard or paper was in some cases mushy to the touch and not restorable.

The store was closed on Friday until around 2:00pm so that we could get the water off the floor and customers could walk through without the danger of anyone slipping.  We reacted fast to minimize as much of the damage as possible.  The total loss is still being tallied but we roughly calculate that the water damaged around 10K (cost) worth of goods. 

Not to worry, we have insurance.

So if you come in to the store during the next week and see the big noisy dehumidifier machines, this was the reason why. Yes, combined with what happened to me on Tuesday, I have had better weeks.