My neighbor's been fighting with his kitchen cabinets from that big box store for three years now, same kind of gap issue you're talking about @kelly.dylan. It's like people forgot that saving money upfront on joints just means paying for it later with headaches.

Awake in a puddle at 4am" pretty much sums up why I stick with my old Walmart tent from 2015. That thing has seen more rain than Seattle and still doesn't leak. Guess I got lucky.

Flip it around and look at it from the client's side. Their site broke because of something basic, but that's on them for not having a proper staging environment or a pre-launch checklist. You pulled the ads fast, which is good, but a 3 hour delay on a $2k spend is barely a dent in the grand scheme. It sounds like you handled it fine and the real lesson is that a launch without a rollback plan is a gamble people take way too often.

You got a driveway or a new patio? Sounds like you accidentally stained it from too much moisture.

I mean, water pooling near your foundation isn't great, but it sounds like a pretty minor fix for a pretty common problem. People act like a little rain is the end of the world.