. . . . for an unfinished basement with a drain!!! After up to seven inches of rain this past weekend, we are finally drying out. Our unfinished basement always gets a line of seepage, but it always goes straight down to the lowest part where there is a fantastic drain. The laundry side of the basement usually has cascading water through the window wells during the most fluid of rainstorms. Our window well next to the family room, with no outside access since the family room is there, also cascaded water during that storm. For the second time since we owned this house. And with our known flashing problem on the roof, water dripped or "rained" in Simon and Norah's room. Our basement area rug was soaked, but since it has no padding it has dried out very nicely. Fans and the dehumidifier have been running constantly and we are drying out nicely. We probably would have had 2 feet or more of standing water in our basement if it was not for that drain and our sump pump. We would have lost so much that we would definitely not be able to or afford to replace!!!!
Around the block people had water and the garbage pile on the curb proved they lost a considerable amount.
To give some perspective, this rainfall was the 3rd most amount of rain in 24 hours in history. Eric has lived in VP his entire life, minus our first married year, and he never remembers seeing Willowbrook and Salt Creek so high! His cousins live not very far at all and they said that the road they live on was hip-high with water!!!
We are definitely lucky to be higher and drier than some!
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Hey Rebecca. I have a question for you. I remember being at your house last summer and your Norah had to go down for a nap while a bunch of people were at your house. How did you get her to the point that she feel asleep on her own in her crib. I still have to rock Nora to sleep.
by the way, sorry about your basement. YIKES!
Wow.... you really got it! We've had a lot of rain here, but not so much at one time. I heard that somewhere in Iowa got 11 inches! YIKES! Yep, much to be thankful for.
Wow! Yikes! I cant even imagine!
Like I said, we are very thankful. The other side of the block a house had 3 1/2 feet and the house kitty-corner from us had 2 1/2 feet of standing water in the basement. We did not lose a thing, and we only had wet cement and a wet area rug sans padding! We are smelling much better in the basement these days!
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