Well,
It appears as though we live in a place that gets more rain than B.C! We estimate that we had over three inches of rain in just over one hour! I lay in bed Tuesday night watching the continuous crash of lightening outside the window; lightening slowly gave way to rain and hail that created a drone too loud to ignore. At 1:30 in the morning a soft knock on our bedroom door started the dogs barking. "What" Dan groans, "The basement flooded" the tiny whisper slips through our door - The enormity of news did not match the tone of voice! Going downstairs we were greeted with about half an inch of water - sploosh! What happened was the window well filled with water, the ground was hard and dry so it did not absorb any water. The roads were flooded level with the sidewalks and all low areas were filled to overflowing. The window wells, being low spots, filled like a bathtub, the drain plugged with all the debris; when the water reached the bottom of the window if slipped right on in and down the inside of the wall. Not only did the water see fit to soak the floor with over an inch of water in some spots, it also crept along inside the wall cavity into the other room. Eventually it trailed all the way across the basement and into the sump wreaking havoc as it went. Our roommates (Timothy and Laura) helped us most of the night clean up the mess. Amie, our other roommate, who's window it was leaked is away on vacation and still doesn't know! The only personal belongings that got wet were a computer monitor and about 20 loads of laundry. Timothy has since moved upstairs to the spare room and Amie's stuff is in the living room waiting for her to come home.
And I'm sure everyone will be as happy to hear as I was that we are NOT covered by insurance. They say we don't have sewer-back up on our coverage (which is news to me) so I've been on the phone with some nasty words trying to get the our broker to admit they neglected to tell us this tiny detail! We'll see what comes of that. As for now, we've got to go open up the walls and pull up some carpet.
Oh, and the pictures are from the rain storm we had this afternoon! (very similar to the one that flooded us!) Oh, yeah we finally got sod too!
