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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.

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.

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.

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................

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dang, Buff that sucks.

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

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.

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


ALL too well.

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.

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.