Water damage from a failed water heater can be the worst for our customers for water restoration services. That is exactly what we experienced early this afternoon. Our customer started hearing a hissing sound and ignored it for a few hours thinking it was from the neighbors doing yard work. Soon after the hissing sound stopped the sound of running water also went ignored until she realized that her husband was not running water and they looked for the source only to discover all of the perils that lead to the need to water mitigation. There was standing water in the kitchen and in the living room the carpet and pad where completely saturated due to the length of time the water was leaking unimpeded from the water heater in the closet into the rest of the house.