Basement got flooded in my building. Had stuff in storage down there. Definitely will be throwing stuff out tomorrow. Luckily most of it I haven't used in the 3 years it was down there save for a few things. I managed to save all my backpacking and car camping gear though. Those are the two things I really wanted to save. They were elevated. Just the backpacking gear would take over a grand to re-buy. So that's nice.
Luckily this place was a gut reno four years ago, and the builder put in a sump pump. It has worked before keeping any water from making it far in the basement and doing any damage at all- it was set up well. But this was just a volume of water it could not handle. There were 6-7 inches or so of water in there when I discovered it and waded in. This was around 9pm. The sump pump was actually working when I checked - the next time I went down to check shortly after midnight, the basement was cleared of water.
Luckily the three hot water heaters for all our units, and the HVAC for unit 1, are on a small section of the basement that is slightly elevated. They were still submerged, but just under maybe 2-3 inches of water instead of the 6-7. I saw the gas valve was not under water, so that's good. Hot water is working fine today, may have to get the burner checked and cleaned at some point. Apparently the owner of Unit 1 emailed and said his tenants have said the HVAC is working fine for them today. So it's still pushing air through the system while the outside condenser cools the air. I wonder what will happen when they try to use it for a heat in a few months though, since the heat is provided by that unit as well.
Walking the dog, lots of homes had stuff drying outside from basement flooding. This area, streets don't really flood. Last night, there was some slight flooding at intersections but nothing too bad. It was the basements that got fucked.
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