The Apartment Strikes Back

Aaaaaannnnnnddddd it's another round with Maintenance. In today's match we have The Apartment A/C Unit in one corner, and the Frustrated Tenant in the other. However this is no ordinary fight, this one involves Weekend Maintanence! Today's fight will be a battle of the wits and stamina... who can hold out longest against the others?

Ok seriously, this is what happened. I spent a nice morning lying in bed, writing an email, messing around on the computer, and finally I get hungry enough to be bothered to go into the kitchen to see what's to eat. I step into a (cold) puddle of water, look down at the cats' water bowl and see it's still full, so they couldn't have spilled this much water. I look up higher to see my countertop and stove top are pooled with water, and the cast iron skillet I had left out on the stove has about an inch of water in it, a lovely murky brown. I look higher up and see my cupboards are splashed with water drops. I follow the line of water to the ceiling, and see the A/C panel has decided to dump condensed water onto my kitchen surfaces. I start grabbing towels, went through 4 full sized towels before I got all the water cleaned up. Of course the ceiling continues to drip, so I lay down a couple tea towels to catch the water while I go get my phone.

Of course I have the maintenance number on speed dial, so I call, and when I got the recording I realized, Hey, it's Saturday! (And then I felt badly about sending a text to someone at 9:30 in the morning. Sorry! I hope I didn't wake you up!) I left a message with the emergency hotline number, spoke slowly and articulately so they'd be able to reach me.

This was over an hour ago and I haven't had a call or a knock on my door. I am rapidly going through towels (1 load in the washer already) and am struggling to be patient. I cancelled my lunch plans (which I had to reschedule from last night already anyway, so now I've missed twice!) so I can wait for Maint to show. I do have plans tonight that I can't change, and will be gone overnight so I hope that the Maintenance people show up before I have to leave. Otherwise it'll be a mess when I get home tomorrow afternoon.

I'm not entirely sure what I can/should do to alleviate the problem until someone comes to fix it. Should I turn off my A/C? (Keep in mind, this is Texas, hotter than a snake's ass in a wagon rut (Thank you Robin Williams for that line) and no A/C means almost certain death. Ok It means constant sweating and uncomfortable, stifling heat.) I already turned up the temp to 80. I actually like it warm, I'm always cold. But still, any hotter and it will be too hot. Should I be concerned that the maintance people won't come because I've bugged them so much about other crap? I will trust them to be professional. I imagine water damage leads to structural damage and that's something they aren't going to want.