Writer Toni Morrison once said, "All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was." Sometimes water takes the scenic route on its journey home, pouring into basements, overflowing from toilets, and bursting through pipes.

The FC&S staff receives many questions regarding water and the damage it inflicts on its travels. Some questions involve water falling from the sky. Some concern water flowing over land or seeping and leaking underground.

And some want to know about water just hanging out in a bathroom, like one FC&S subscriber who told us about an insured's naughty son who flushed a tennis ball down the toilet. The ball got stuck, water backed up, and the floor, walls, and room suffered extensive water damage.

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