3:30 in the morning and my basement is flooding!!!!!!

Fucking grand. I wake up cuz it sounds like one of the aquariums is low on water, you know that trickling noise they make. So i go to check it out. Nope it's water flowing in the basement window. The gutters had clogged up lastnight as we slept. Now I am going to have towait till someplace opens to rent a shop vack or a rug docktor. Something to get the water out!
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Damn man, that fucking sucks! Not that i have to tell you that. Good luck on the clean up.

ew shit that sucks sorry!!

a wet/dry shop vac will fix that up pretty quick...but it sucks major, none the less.

thank goodness i live in a slab house on a hill! [img]wink.gif[/img]

I feel for ya man! One of the worst feelings I've ever had was stepping into about 8 inches of water in my family room when my crawl space flooded (I live in a tri-level). Fortunately all of my stored figures were in Rubbermaid containers. The only real loss (figurewise) was all the packaging for my Techno Spawns.

I did lose photos, all my yearbooks and some artwork. Some books took water damage but I was able to save them to a degree. Oh yeah, I lost all of my vinyl record collection.

Sorry to hear that. [img]frown.gif[/img]

Maybe your Hong Kong express will come a bit early and cheer you up! [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

Sorry to hear that. Having something happen to your house is just one of the worst feelings.

Thanks guys (and gals), I went up to the grocery store first thing today and got a Rug Doctor (shop vac thingy) and have been sucking water out of the carpet. So far I have remove 6.8 gallons of water and it looks like I may have started to make a dent!

None of my toys were in harms way but all my electronics are a bit damp. No Tv, no music. My PC is on the far side of the room and seems to bee ok. I hate this time of year in missouri, its one natural disaster after another. Now that I have a break from the carpets I need to go unclog the gutters!

FUN DAY OFF!!!!! [img]eek.gif[/img]

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Originally posted by sculpey:
Sorry to hear that. Having something happen to your house is just one of the worst feelings.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well lat year it was a tornado , so a lil flood aint bad.

yikes!!!


glad I live on the 3rd floor. [img]wink.gif[/img]

Looks like you have a nice place, sucks that it's soggy.

I can relate having lived in an apartment building where the room above me was gutted by fire and a lot of the water they doused it with ended up in my space. In college nothing is considered ruined, and the figs I had at that time were safe but some HotWheels got a little wet and sooty. Took weeks to get the smell out of the sheets.

Then there was the year after I moved back in with my parents and the stream next to their 150-year-old+ log house was already swollen from snow melt. Figures that one of the heaviest rainfalls in decades came along and put it just at the brink of overflowing, and then a large rock rolled into the middle of the current and forced it uphill over the bank between the ditch and the house. The bulk of the water was diverted directly into the basement window and within minutes there was three feet of water and rising as I waded fast as I could to the fuse box to cut the juice. Imagine a 6' guy ducking a 5' ceiling in 3' of icy water, dodging firewood and praying the furnace doesn't explode. Got that done quick and then back outside to fight the current and move that rock. What a rush. Fortunately, since the house is so old the walls and floor down there have so many cracks that once we got the flow stopped all the water drained back out in a few hours. The appliances survived after some cleaning, and since my folks just did some clearing out that winter there wasn't anything valuable ruined.

Hope your stuff is ok.

that does suck. my first house had a swimming pool everytime it rained. the basement flooded all the time. that was one of my major concerns when I bought my next home.

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Originally posted by chaserfan:
that does suck. my first house had a swimming pool everytime it rained. the basement flooded all the time. that was one of my major concerns when I bought my next home.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yea, i am going to the hardware store and buying some bricks to build a retaining wall arount the window well.