Lindsay Arnold is doing her best to look on the bright side after her three-year-old daughter, Sage, accidentally flooded several floors of their family home.
On Thursday, May 9, Dancing with the stars alum, 30, posted a nearly four-minute TikTok explaining how her child caused their major and ongoing renovation.
“In case you’re having a bad day, let me tell you our house just flooded,” Arnold said at the start of the clip. “Brace yourself – there are quite a few unfortunate events here.”
The dance pro shares daughters Saga and June, 11 months, with husband Samuel Lightner Cusick.
Before going into detail, she began her story by saying that she was aware that things could have been “completely worse” and that other “people go through much worse things than this.”
According to Arnold, the family went to a birthday dinner for her mom, and when they got home, “our whole kitchen, the main floor was flooded” with inches of water. Cusick quickly went to check the basement, and by yelling “a nice big curse,” Arnold could tell the situation was serious.
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She said that before the family went to dinner that evening, all water was shut off in their neighborhood for maintenance.
Although Arnold and Cusick didn’t see the incident, they assumed from the aftermath that Sage tried to use the faucet, but when the water didn’t flow, the toddler didn’t bother to turn it off.
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Arnold added that the maintenance ended shortly after their family left home for dinner, and that’s when the faucet must have started running — “for almost three and a half hours.”
Former DWTS the competitor said the water went “right onto our countertop, all over the kitchen, and then apparently into our basement.”
In an April 23 TikTok, Arnold toured a home where she said the basement had been renovated a month before.
“So far the shame is this — All the floors on the main level have to be replaced. It also looks like all of our cabinets need to be replaced as well, as well as our kitchen island,” she said.
Arnold explained, “Now when they do that, they have to pull out the cabinets, which might save some of the cabinets, but nine times out of 10, that means your countertops will break because it’s really hard to remove a full marble countertop without cracking it.”
In addition to the family’s kitchen repairs, “down in the basement, they tore out the entire ceiling,” including the drywall.
Part of the floors will need to be replaced in the basement as well.
“This is so unfortunate, and like I said, this could be a lot worse. I’m really trying to stay positive,” Arnold said.
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“Maybe this happened for a reason. Maybe I can get new countertops,” she said, laughing, then making a sad face.
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