Thankfully, my assistant was able to secure all of our equipment prior to the extensive flooding.

More or less. I do not know how familiar you are with multi-dimensional theory, but our evidence suggests that this dimension, the one that we currently inhabit, exists in a non-parallel state with each of our own, temporally speaking. When you are eventually returned to your own universe, it will be at the exact moment you were taken from in the first place, such that no time will have passed whatsoever. From that perspective.