Got a bit of rain today ....

[ControlD]

So it has been raining here in Ohio pretty much for the last week and we are supposed to keep getting rain for the next seven days as well. Today it decided to dump about 4 inches of rain in 45 minutes or so. The results pretty much sucked.

That blue circle is where my sump discharge is. The water was about twice as high up my driveway before it started to recede. The water was actually about four feet from flooding my garage. Needless to say, my basement is a freaking mess now.

Never buy the low house on the street, especially when the county never cleans out the storm sewers.

 

[master_shake_]

the end of days is coming!

when are you building the ark?

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

the end of days is coming!

when are you building the ark?

That ship sailed long ago.

 

[MongGrel]

That ship sailed long ago.

 

[ControlD]

the end of days is coming!

when are you building the ark?

lol, I pretty much said the same thing to my wife.

 

[SparkyJJO]

Ouch, what part of Ohio? It has been fairly wet here (central Ohio) but nothing crazy like that.

 

[ControlD]

Ouch, what part of Ohio? It has been fairly wet here (central Ohio) but nothing crazy like that.

Allen County (hillbilly central).

 

[Red Squirrel]

Guessing a blocked storm sewer? Or is that actual flooding? either way this can't be good.

 

[ControlD]

I guess two good things come out of this:

(1) The basement will finally get cleaned
(2) I get to put all new flooring in. Everything is padded carpet. That pretty much sucks at this point.

 

[SparkyJJO]

Sure does. Sucked up all that water.

 

[ControlD]

Guessing a blocked storm sewer? Or is that actual flooding? either way this can't be good.

A little of both. Unfortunately I live in the low spot in my very small housing development. This is the only house I have owned and I didn't know any better at the time to look at the elevation of the house. The street floods like that every major downpour, but this was worse than normal.

I called the county about two years ago. Two dicks came out in their work truck, ate some McDonalds and then left. I don't think they ever actually got out to look at anything.

 

[effowe]

I'm just west of Chicago, and had a similar situation, though not as bad. Water came down in pools quickly, and filled up the window-wells. I was shopvaccing it up for a few hours before the landlord was able to come install an outside pump to free it from the main window-well.

Hope you can get a handle on the situation sooner than later.

 

[ControlD]

I'm going to do a little creative rerouting of my sump discharge tomorrow. Hopefully that will help with such future events.

 

[master_shake_]

dave you should re-route your water to california.

apparently there's some kind of drought.

build the damn pipe!

 

[postmortemIA]

What about your drywall? Can you save it?

 

[John Connor]

Did you have flood insurance?

We had a month of fucking rain and rain almost every evening. A storm just passed tonight. I bought my self a lightning detector and a better weather radio with an alert. I programmed the SAME code to out county. I have been watching radar and satellite on Weatherunderground more often than not. Mesocyclones scare me. I was reading about them and I guess they are the precursor to a damn tornado. Several years a town to the east of us was on national TV for a huge ass tornado.

Since I live in a tri level I have my fire proof safe downstairs with my backup hard drives in it and other stuff in case the SHTF.

Lightning, tornadoes and hail can all go to hell!

PS. I want a professional lightning detector. They make some awesome stuff!

 

[ControlD]

What about your drywall? Can you save it?

I got a little lucky there. I managed to cobble together an emergency pump and got the problem under control before it reached much of the drywall. I ran a line into my sanitary sewer and hooked that up to a spare .5HP pump I had laying around. Too bad it took me so long (the switch was broken and I had to rewire that before it would kick on) and a couple of inches of water was on the floor by that point. The room with the sump is unfinished, so the only damage there is all the crap we had sitting on the floor. I got a ton of water that came up through my floor throughout the basement, so the carpet is toast. It would have been a lot worse if this happened two days ago when we were on vacation.

 

[ControlD]

Did you have flood insurance?

Yes, but it turns out you need special insurance to cover sump failures. I have a feeling that they will call this a sump failure because my pump was not able to discharge the water even though it never quit running. I am not sure if I have that rider or not. Probably not knowing my special lack to paying attention to the finer details in such matters.

 

[AMD64Blondie]

Yikes...that looks like it sucked.

Not even during our Flood of 1996 here in Oregon, have I seen flooding that bad.

 

[Jeff7]

Allen County (hillbilly central).

Shens.
I see neatly-trimmed grass, no broken rusting cars sitting on the lawn, and no wandering cows.

 

[John Connor]

Yes, but it turns out you need special insurance to cover sump failures. I have a feeling that they will call this a sump failure because my pump was not able to discharge the water even though it never quit running. I am not sure if I have that rider or not. Probably not knowing my special lack to paying attention to the finer details in such matters.

Figures. The insurance companies will fuck you no matter what. "Oh! You need this coverage and that, and did you update your policy? No well screw you!"

 

[Mixolydian]

We've been getting a shit-ton of rain here in the Chicago area the past couple weeks.

Yesterday alone got over 1.5"

 

[DaTT]

Yes, but it turns out you need special insurance to cover sump failures. I have a feeling that they will call this a sump failure because my pump was not able to discharge the water even though it never quit running. I am not sure if I have that rider or not. Probably not knowing my special lack to paying attention to the finer details in such matters.

I think that picture proves it wasn't a sump failure....and why the rake?

 

[ControlD]

I think that picture proves it wasn't a sump failure....and why the rake?

The guy in the picture was clearing the storm sewers of debris. I told him that wasn't the problem, but he wanted to make sure they weren't blocked from the top. Plus, it gave me a good chance to get a picture showing how deep the water still was.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Ohio is crying for the impending loss of the Cavaliers.