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Posted on: Jun. 27 2015,18:55 |
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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.
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Vince
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Posted on: Jun. 28 2015,13:48 |
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Everything turn out okay?
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GORDON
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Posted on: Jun. 28 2015,14:58 |
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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.
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GORDON
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Posted on: Jun. 28 2015,16:49 |
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This thread is worthless without pics.
Had to pick my kid up from a slumber party. Â The farmer's field on the left is draining over the road to the creek on the right. Â About a foot deep.
My buddy's neighborhood in the new part of town. Â They have actual sewers, which actually backed up. Â Bummer. Â (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. Â That's about 10 feet deep, or so. Â Barn is about 2 feet higher so horses are dry, barely.
The road to a different aunt/uncle's house. Â 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. Â I bet it might not be, any more. Â Don't know because we couldn't get to their house.
And this is the road to UnkBill's house. Â 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. Â 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. Â I built her house, though, so I imagine the floor insulation is now waterlogged and probably dropping down out of the floor joists.
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GORDON
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Posted on: Jun. 28 2015,17:18 |
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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
Edited by GORDON on Jun. 28 2015,17:19
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GORDON
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Posted on: Jun. 28 2015,18:40 |
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Broke the "most rain in a single day in June" record.
http://www.toledonewsnow.com/story....r-water
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Malcolm
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Posted on: Jun. 28 2015,18:52 |
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Being in the cesspool of the midwest during the Flood of '93 numbed me.
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GORDON
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Posted on: Jun. 28 2015,19:43 |
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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.
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Vince
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Posted on: Jun. 28 2015,20:04 |
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Glad everything went well for you, Gordo.
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GORDON
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Posted on: Jul. 06 2015,13:51 |
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Unk did not have insurance. I offered my help cleaning up but I haven't heard from him since.
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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.
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Posted on: Jul. 06 2015,14:04 |
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(Malcolm @ Jul. 06 2015,17:02)
QUOTE QUOTE 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.
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Posted on: Jul. 06 2015,14:08 |
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Not just the cash, it's the time.
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GORDON
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Posted on: Jul. 08 2015,11:24 |
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Goddam mosquitoes.
There is a cloud of them.
(You're welcome, TPR)
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Posted on: Jul. 09 2015,23:08 |
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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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GORDON
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Posted on: Jul. 10 2015,16:39 |
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Didn't we discuss these water powered sump pumps before, and how they were like perpetual motion machines?
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