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Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2015 9:55 pm
by GORDON
Been getting an inch of rain an hour since last night and my sump pumps (two of them) are pumping the crocks about every minute and I have water coming out of drainage pipes where I have never seen it before, and the rain was supposed to be done by midnight but the map isn't really showing that.
I have a battery backup sump pump. Hope it doesn't need to get put to the test. There may end up being a dramatic shift in tone in my "finishing my basement" pics.
Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2015 4:48 pm
by Vince
Everything turn out okay?
Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2015 5:58 pm
by GORDON
I ended up fine. Turns out the $10k I spent 9 years ago to protect my basement from flooding was well spent.
UnkBill was not so lucky. He lives at a lower elevation (probably 10 feet less than me) right on a creek... he said he had 3 inches of water on his ground floor last night. That's a first, so I guess this officially the most rain/highest water in at least 25 years since that house was built. At this time I do not know if he has flood insurance. He says he will be ripping out carpets tomorrow.
Lots of other local people on the local news websites clamoring for the government to start handing out money to repair flooded basements/houses because they didn't have my foresight. I swear to fucking god if that happens....
Grrrr.
Also some fucktard had a tree go down in the road and to expedite the clearing of it they just dragged it to my property and left it there. They better not be fucking expecting me to deal with it.
Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2015 7:49 pm
by GORDON
This thread is worthless without pics.
Had to pick my kid up from a slumber party. The farmer's field on the left is draining over the road to the creek on the right. About a foot deep.
My buddy's neighborhood in the new part of town. They have actual sewers, which actually backed up. Bummer. (Also of note it the local grain elevator to which houses within 7ish miles can point to to get their country bumpkin "fast" internet, mentioned in Vince's thread.)
Shade shelter at my sister's horse farm. That's about 10 feet deep, or so. Barn is about 2 feet higher so horses are dry, barely.
The road to a different aunt/uncle's house. We were giong to see if their pond had filled up yet.... they drained it last fall to dredge it out, and it was still about 3 feet low. I bet it might not be, any more. Don't know because we couldn't get to their house.
And this is the road to UnkBill's house. His driveway is actually in the middle of that flood, into the woods to the right.
This is his actual house, ground floor flooded about 3 inches.Feel extra bad because in the winter he heats his house with a woodburner, and his wood pile was in the right of that picture, and he pretty much spends a good chunk of his summers cutting wood. Looks like that pile might be gone now.
This is my aunt's house next door, her deck is flooded but she said the water stopped about 5 inches from getting in. I built her house, though, so I imagine the floor insulation is now waterlogged and probably dropping down out of the floor joists.
Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2015 8:18 pm
by GORDON
More rain in the forecast tomorrow... hopefully the creek will be down a foot or so by then.
If you'd like to play along at home here's my zip code.
http://www.weather.com/weather/today/l/43412:4:US
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Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2015 9:40 pm
by GORDON
Broke the "most rain in a single day in June" record.
http://www.toledonewsnow.com/story....r-water
Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2015 9:42 pm
by GORDON
Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2015 9:52 pm
by Malcolm
Being in the cesspool of the midwest during the Flood of '93 numbed me.
Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2015 10:43 pm
by GORDON
Almost everyone we know with a basement got it flooded. We are nice and dry in our 80 year old basement, the 2+1 sump pumps kept up just fine. The $9k basement renovation just paid for itself.
Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:04 pm
by Vince
Glad everything went well for you, Gordo.
Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 4:51 pm
by GORDON
Unk did not have insurance. I offered my help cleaning up but I haven't heard from him since.
++++
New topic: the last few days there hasn't been a cloud in the sky, but the sky is still white, horizon to horizon. I was told there were some fucking wild fires up in Manitoba and all that shit is now in my upper atmosphere.
Blood red sun and moon in the evenings, though.
Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 5:02 pm
by Malcolm
Unk did not have insurance.
Ouch.
Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 5:04 pm
by GORDON
Malcolm wrote:Unk did not have insurance.
Ouch.
He lives near the creek but the area was never designated a federal flood zone so no flood insurance was required.
If this is a 50 year flood, and the last one that high was 50 years ago, it really doesn't make sense to pay for the insurance for that long, it's cheaper just to pay to fix the flood damage.
Doesn't make it hurt less when it happens.
Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 5:08 pm
by Malcolm
Not just the cash, it's the time.
Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 11:52 pm
by TPRJones
GORDON wrote:...the last few days there hasn't been a butt in the sky, but the sky is still white, horizon to horizon...
*snicker*
Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 2:24 pm
by GORDON
Goddam mosquitoes.
There is a cloud of them.
(You're welcome, TPR)
Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 2:54 pm
by Alhazad
GORDON wrote:Goddam mosquitoes.
There is a cloud of them.
(You're welcome, TPR)
It's inappropriate to cloud his view of the conversation for your amusement.
I'll grant that it may be funny once, but it could cast a butt over your friendship. Stormclouds are gathering, and these butts will have a deleterious effect. You're butting up against trouble, and it's your own cloud on the line.
Ask yourself, what would McCloud do?
Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 2:08 am
by Leisher
A lot of rain last night again.
We didn't flood either time. My single sump pump worked its ass off though. Went and bought a water powered backup that I'm going to install just in case.
Worst part for me was a golf outing was cancelled today. The course is under water.
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Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 10:34 am
by Malcolm
Leisher wrote:Worst part for me was a golf outing was cancelled today. The course is under water.
Don't they make some sort of buoyant spheroid you can hit with some shitty, third-hand clubs you've got lying around while getting drunk?
Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 7:39 pm
by GORDON
Didn't we discuss these water powered sump pumps before, and how they were like perpetual motion machines?