Holland has been hit ... with lots of rain that is! We arrived home late last night in the middle of a thunderstorm. Paul and I sat back casually in the family room to talk about our night & watch the thunderstorms pass through on the radar. We're not talking a little rain, thunder and lightning ... we're talking STORMS! Paul kind of laughed and said he's glad we're not living on 29th Street anymore ... they are surely taking bucket fulls of water off the basement floors. It's nice to be dry. :) Hey Paul, I said, maybe we should check our OWN basement. A few second later I heard from below "We've got water! Come quick!!"
We've never had water in our basement. We never thought it was a problem. This past week the sprinkling guys were here trenching in a new line, right near the foundation of the house. The water was pouring off the roof right into the new trench, right near where a pipe is going through the basement wall. Enough said ... we had water! There's a tiny drain in the room that was flooding, so I stood with broom in hand attempting to get the water into the drain. Paul went out into the pouring rain to figure something out. He tarred, he dug new trenches, he put up tarps, he drove to Hamilton to get a wet/dry vac ... all while I swept. Thankfully, we got the water under control and no damage was done. It poured again this afternoon and I have to say my heart started beating a little faster.
Apparently we weren't the only ones with trouble. Our neighbors basement window blew in and they had a professional pumping gallons of water out this morning...with all their furniture, beds, clothes, etc stacked in their garage. A lady on the news says she got stuck in her car while water came in up to her seat. We went to check on the boat and an entire sea wall had caved in. We waded in calf-deep water to get to the dock. Kids were using knee boards to "surf" down the street. We found a dead rabbit in the yard ... we think he drowned. Poor little guy! Some water in the basement and a few tense moments last night didn't seem nearly as bad this morning as we heard other's stories ...
We hope all of you stayed high and dry. We hope you continue to ... the weather says more storms tonight and tomorrow. I've got my broom ready!!
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We had our share of water too this week! Thankfully our finished basement stayed dry, but there is lots of water still under the house. I took a personal day on Monday to help Verne extend the pvc pipes (thanks Home Depot)extend 100 ft from the house instead of 30 ft. Our neighbors unfortunately did not fair as well. Their entire basement got flooded and they are now working on cleaning and redoing it. Dad is keeping a watchful eye on the water, sooo much water,that we have our sump pump and an additional pump that I purchased at Lowe's and a pump that Paul so graciously went to Hamilton to pick up late Sunday evening and came over with Mike to assist us with. We ended up getting a bigger pump installed from the plumber to continue to push 32 gal of water a minute of our water or could it be the neighbors water too, or are we sitting the the water table?? Time will tell.......
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