Well, this image should give you some idea of what our basement was like last night. When we bought this house a year ago the seller said the basement "leaked a little" with "really bad storms". Ha!
'scuse me.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Lol! There were no fewer than eight SPRINGS gushing into the basement last night. Andy worked tirelessly sloshing water into our two sump pumps. We had about a 10 gallon trash can under one spout and it filled almost instantaneously. Andy sloshed out to the garage in ankle deep water to discover slightly deeper water.
This morning I was surprised to learn that it wasn't just our crappy little house that got soaked. The federal government had liberal leave today. (I think this administration calls it "pinko commie slacker leave" though.) We'd already decided today we'd be off and so we made a bee line to Home Depot. At 7 am the place was seriously hopping. Andy waited in line for a water pump. It's a little thing so I'm surprised it does something productive...afraid we shall soon see. We already had a wet/dry vac and mega fan of course, but we got a serious dehumidifier and hydraulic cement repair goop. On the way back from Home Depot, we stopped at our "old"house, currently on the market (excellent timing). I'm not gonna say anything was wrong with the house, I'm definitely not going to say there was anything amiss. Not with our house that we're trying to sell that is perfectly good and has NO issues whatsoever. We just felt like visiting for a while and hanging out there in the basement for a while. Yeah...
Back here, Andy mashed the hydraulic cement into the walls today. I cleaned the rest of the stairs and went grocery shopping. We're having steak for dinner. We have worked up an appetite.
Edited to add a link to video of the torrent on YouTube:
Andy & Laura's Basement Pool
Monday, June 26, 2006
Land Ho!
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OMG Laura... that is so horrible. We're staying pretty dry here. Good thing too- we just had basement carpeting installed last week (of course, it didn't work out well and they're coming back tomorrow to fix it or rip it out-grrr)! Your water problems are the things of my nightmares. I hope you guys get everything dried out quickly. What a P.I.T.A. :( I hope you both get to have a relaxing time at the river this weekend and don't have to stick around the city with your buckets and such. BTW, your southern dinner sounded fabulous! I haven't been cooking anything exciting lately. The cooking magazines keep coming and I browse them and stack them in a pile. I'm such a slacker lately.
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