My basement flooded last night

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Buffacuse · #1 Post by **Buffacuse** » Mon May 12, 2008 5:07 am

Lots of books and other stuff ruined--hauling it away today so staying home. Will check in later but not how I wanted to return to the day crew.

Bob Juch · #2 Post by **Bob Juch** » Mon May 12, 2008 5:11 am

Ugh! I feel for you. I lost tons of stuff 25 years ago so learned the hard way to not put anything important in a basement.

peacock2121 · #3 Post by **peacock2121** » Mon May 12, 2008 5:20 am

My old house used to flood as well. Even when the sump pump worked, it still got wet. I am sorry you found out about yours too late.

Flybrick · #4 Post by **Flybrick** » Mon May 12, 2008 6:16 am

I'm in the same Noah-type water situation as you in NVA, but so far, knock on new wood floor in the basement, nothing.

That sucks for you................

MarleysGh0st · #5 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Mon May 12, 2008 6:29 am

Sorry to hear that, Buff, especially about the poor, defenseless books!

Looks like a lot of rain in that storm, but it's still dry here. It's been stalled just to our southwest since yesterday afternoon.

gsabc · #6 Post by **gsabc** » Mon May 12, 2008 6:32 am

After a recent water heater break, we bought some plastic pallets for the books and other stuff. The basement is unfinished, so no furniture. If you generally don't get more than a couple of inches of flooding in a wet basement, the pallets are the way to go. Not much you can do for major floods, though. My sympathies.

Bob Juch · #7 Post by **Bob Juch** » Mon May 12, 2008 6:50 am

gsabc wrote:After a recent water heater break, we bought some plastic pallets for the books and other stuff. The basement is unfinished, so no furniture. If you generally don't get more than a couple of inches of flooding in a wet basement, the pallets are the way to go. Not much you can do for major floods, though. My sympathies.

I thought the same thing and had my stuff on wooden pallets - didn't help much.

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #8 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Mon May 12, 2008 7:03 am

Buffacuse wrote:Lots of books and other stuff ruined--hauling it away today so staying home. Will check in later but not how I wanted to return to the day crew.

I am sorry about the flooding. Hopefully the damage to your stuff isn't too bad.

a1mamacat · #9 Post by **a1mamacat** » Mon May 12, 2008 7:24 am

Dang, Buff that sucks.

kayrharris · #10 Post by **kayrharris** » Mon May 12, 2008 8:01 am

Sorry about the damage and the ensuing cleanup. I know it can't be fun.

ghostjmf · #11 Post by **ghostjmf** » Mon May 12, 2008 3:16 pm

We had another unit's furnace's overflow device decide it wanted to overflow about every 6 minutes during the night a few weeks ago; woke up to the sound of intermittantly running water in the pipes, & about 2 inches of water pooled in my storage area. Because my storage area is downhill, so to speak, from the source of the water.

I learned years ago not to put valuable stuff, even of the cloth & not book variety, against the outer wall when it turned out that the outer wall was where mega-snow melted in. So the stuff that got hit this time around was furniture I want to put in a big enough apt, "some day". Its all rescued-from-the-trash stuff (some of it quite nice) so I guess I can't mourn too much the new water marks. I have old paper records (bills, etc) I never want to see again but can't throw out in boxes on tables. Which won't save them when the people working on ceiling pipes decide to open up a pipe or two without a bucket underneath; they've done that lots of times, but so far have spared that area.

T_Bone0806 · #12 Post by **T_Bone0806** » Mon May 12, 2008 3:48 pm

Sorry to hear about this. I know all too well about floods.

ALL too well.

Buffacuse · #13 Post by **Buffacuse** » Mon May 12, 2008 7:45 pm

Well--that was a fun day...about 30 contractor sized garbage bags full of soggy books, toys, and stuff---and so much other stuff ruined we had to call a trash company to bring over one of those containers. Good news is we don't think there is any structual damage, but man what a mess--and a lot of memories getting thrown out.

BTW, this happened because we have a walk-out basement and a set of concrete stairs leading down to it--the drain at the bottom got clogged and the water came up over the doorframe into the basement. Tip to those in similar situations--every so often, get a hose and run it down into the drain to see if it works. Sure wish I had done that now.

Catch y'all later--I am one tired hombre.

mellytu74 · #14 Post by **mellytu74** » Tue May 13, 2008 11:13 pm

Buff --

About six years ago, the hot water heater at TLAF's broke and the basement/rec room had three/four inches of water in parts.

We had tons of stuff on pallets in the garage but no pallets in the basement.

At the time, I was cleaning out of a bunch of late 40s/early 50s novels from the secretary. They were all ruined and had to be tossed instead of heading to charity.

The real loss was to some albums and 45s. I was able to save the 45s with a good cleaning but many of the album covers (thus any resale value) were ruined.

So I feel your pain, although our loss certainly wasn't on the scale that yours was.

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