I was happy that all I had was clean water. Everyone else, across the alley and down some other blocks, had sewage. The carpets needed a good cleaning anyway! That will be my looking on the bright side quote for the day.
kbareit That's a lot of water. I had a similar situation, but not as bad, when we first moved in here. We just bought the house and moved everything downstairs, so I could get the first floor cleaned and painted before we officially moved in. I was living here fixing it up while my wife stayed at home with her parents. The front street was inaccessible because the main sewers, under the street, were being replaced. So the streets were torn up. I did not have any possesions then, just a VMC72, a Westinghouse chest cooler, a 1015 One More Time jukebox, that we won off of a radio contest, and a chair that my friends dad threw out in the alley. Just the necessities of life. My wife had cannisters full of old dolls that she collected down there too.
It rained and because there were no sewers, we flooded. Luckily the jukebox was in the back corner of the house. It is the highest point. I had over a foot most of the basement. The compressors were under water, no power on. The jukebox had water just below the speaker. My wife's stuff was floating around, the metal drums opened up. So everything was destroyed except for my jukebox and two Coke machines. We haven't flooded since then.
My house has no sump pump, just drains. We actually used our pool skimmer pump, to keep up with the seepage. The most we had was about four inches in the back when I woke up at 3 A.M. to check. So we had to turn the pump on, then off, let it fill up a little, on, off, on, off, all night long. I'd rather lose sleep than my stuff.
So overall, it was a good flood.
Tom I would love to have you come over and join the party. Like I said before, it's not anything real special, just some vending machines and games. It's more about the pizza, beer, and good friends getting together. The more the merrier.
(This is all of us toasting, drinking, and how we'll look the next morning
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