Have a look:
That, my friends, is what remains of my last 24 hours. We found the heavy rains and still mostly frozen ground was not good for the basement. We took in about two inches of rain yesterday afternoon and evening. We've lived in this house for almost 29 years and not once has the basement flooded. We've been lucky - most every other neighbor around us has flooded on a regular basis.
So, I guess maybe it was our turn?
We borrowed Kirk's shop vac. Then ours, which was very very old, rusted through on the bottom and no longer held water. That's how old the thing was. It was still made of metal!
A hurried trip into town amidst the tornado sirens gathered a new and larger shop vac, and sandwiches at McDonalds. We returned home to find that the basement had filled up again. We vac'd up water till 1:30 a.m. and then collapsed with a combination of exhaustion and F*** it...if you get my drift!
Now, the water was not coming in through the sump pump. Not at first, anyway. Eventually the sump hole filled and we found without a shadow of a doubt that the sump pump DIDN'T WORK.
So, I called the plumber this morning. And just $300 dollars later a new pump was installed and is now busily marshing out the side of the house and the neighbor's driveway. I'm sure they'll be delighted when they get home!
I'll have to make a trip to the home improvement store to get some flex pipe or something similar to run all that water elsewhere.
And, I think I deserve a nice restaurant meal tonight for all my efforts today. Believe me, I'd have much rather NOT have called into work today! Red Lobster sounds good...
Thought you'd get a kick out of what the sump pump puked up, though. Understand, my youngest children turned 30 this year, so I had a good giggle when I fished these out.
Yup...some of Kirk's Legos still exist. And, I think that ball might be an accessory from He-Man. I'm going to give them to Kirk. *chuckles*
You know, I've been talking about beginning a vigorous workout program, but this was not exactly what I had in mind to start out! My, what sore muscles I have!
Kate
3 comments:
Oh NO! I'm glad you could get a new pump and some giggles out of the situation. Yuck!
Poor baby, you must really be sore and tired!
I hope it's all nice and dry soon.
I'm sure Kirk will love those treasures.
Oh man digging up treasures like that would be so cool!
I'm glad the flooding wasn't any worse Kate, I've never had a flooded basement but I had one once where during an extremely heavy rain the sewer backed up into the basement, about 1/4 way up the walls. Talk about smelly!!
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