Termite Inspection Day

The Crawlspace is Flooded?
Today was certainly an interesting day. The termite inspection was scheduled today, and I got the call around 3pm I guess, so I went to the house to meet the inspector. It was lovely weather, since it had been pouring down rain off and on all day, and we were under a flash flood warning. There was water standing in ditches and puddles all over the place on the way over to the house. The inspector gets to the house, checks the inside, and then proceeds to head to the crawlspace. Now this house has two crawlspace entrances with one on the side of the house and one in the back. He went to the side of the house first, but then I see him walking out front heading toward the back just a few minutes later. I thought "Geez he wasn't under there very long." A very few minutes later he comes in the back door and says that he can't do the crawlspace inspection because it's flooded. "You're joking" I said immediately, but he wasn't. I walked out there with him and he pointed his flashlight in the hole and to the left and there was some water visible. The crawlspace is also sitting a few inches lower than the ground outside. I then looked up at the roof immediately over head, and no gutters. Of course there was water under there, why wouldn't there be? The rain we have had lately has saturated the ground, we just got more rain than could soak in quickly, the crawlspace has a plastic vapor barrier laying on the ground, and the water ran from the highest point to the lowest. To shorten this tale some, after contacting the bank we found out that they didn't require a termite inspection for this loan for some reason. (Just the appraisal, which will be done in a couple of days or so) I had already paid for the inspection though so he will come back after things dry out.

We also were faxed copies of all the signed paperwork of the Purchase agreements. If the lawyer is available on the 15th, we will move the closing to that day instead of the 22nd.