PORT ANGELES — The flood that forced Bob and Lindi Lumen’s Northwest Fudge & Confections to close for more than nine months this year didn’t come from a chocolate kettle gone rogue.

It came from the ceiling.

On Jan. 28, just after 2 p.m., a customer in the downtown candy store looked up and sounded the first alarm.

“Your ceiling’s dripping,” Lindi Lumens recalled him saying.

What started as a trickle from a small spot in the ceiling soon turned into a full-on deluge.

Maintenance workers from Peninsula Housing Authority, which owns the building and the 48 apartments above it at Lee Plaza, were already dealing with a plumbing leak when the problem migrated into the Lumens’ store.

“They brought in a big trash can, because (the water) was filling up buckets that we put there,” Lindi Lume

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