Ick

[lalicopa]

I guess I should feel lucky that with a straight week of heavy rain that the only damage we have is some flooding in the basement along with a small leak in the dining room...but...I'm getting neurotic about mold growing so we have Stanley Steemer here cleaning up (and a super hawt man wielding a vacuum, yum) and spending money we probably don't need to spend. Of course it's in the basement that is also our playroom and my craft room...so basically we're not going down there until the carpets are dry and clean and new padding is down and this godforsaken rain stops.

Hot vacuum man said that the house they came from a few blocks from me had 4 inches of water in the basement and that we are really lucky that we only have the damage we have.

I don't ever remember this much rain ever. Not in my entire life. I don't know how you people in England do it. It's miserable.

ETA: Ok, there is now a TON of water in my basement and we're going to end up getting new carpet in the whole thing. So I'm shaking with anxiety, and Robert is actually the sane one telling me, "It's an act of nature" and that there was nothing we could have done to prevent it. Just that it's the room I spend the most time in and it's going to be totally out of commission for at least a week or so as it appears now. I'm going to bring up toys from the basement for the den, but still. My house is my sanctuary and this is shaking me up more than it should probably.

I am such a baby. Imagine the poor people in New Orleans, etc. I'm shutting up now.

Comments

[mollyf.livejournal.com]

Eeyikes! That's a lot of rain. (((Jen))) Sorry I haven't been keeping up on the news, I see now that there are lots of folks getting soaked in your part of the world. Good thing your family is sqared away enough to get the damaged fixed soon.

Oh the whiners in New Orleans. At least they didn't have an earthquake that wiped out the entire population of the state. ha ha. Comparisons are never fair, so don't put that on yourself. :) Go ahead and complain! It sucks!

[junipertree.livejournal.com]

I can relate, I really can. Our basement was damaged several years ago and we're finally finishing renovations. It's beyond frustrating.

[warpedwitch.livejournal.com]

can you get tile instead of carpet? at least this way, you don't have to worry so much about mold or dirt or or or...

[lalicopa.livejournal.com]

I'm looking into something called "carpet tile" which is removable...if not, maybe we'll see about tile and then get some big area rugs. I want it to be carpet in there because it's the playroom and the only place in the whole house with carpet! I'm going to invest in a pump as well, as soon as Home Depot gets them back in stock!

[warpedwitch.livejournal.com]

there are this big foam type alphabet mats that i've seen at TRU-would that be an option? they've got that at sproglette's daycare in the infant's room, and it's a good inch or two thick...

(hugs)

[mijven.livejournal.com]

While you're at it, consider emergency power backups to the sump pump (also available through Home Depot.) Maybe you won't need it if this is your first exposure to flooding (I've grown up with sump pumps, so I didn't know people didn't have them) but when storms both flood and take out power, sump pumps aren't all that useful anymore. Except as a place to first gather water so you can fill up buckets by candlelight and run them outside/to the nearest sink. ;)

[mybonnykate.livejournal.com]

Flooding makes SUCH a mess. I'm glad you're able to have it replaced.

[catyak]

I don't ever remember this much rain ever. Not in my entire life. I don't know how you people in England do it. It's miserable.

Well, basements aren't common in a lot of the UK, so that deals with that aspect of the flooding issue. Also, we're used to rain and are set up for it, whereas a couple of inches of snow and the country grinds to a halt because we get it so rarely (at least in the south)

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[k425.livejournal.com]

we get it so rarely (at least in the south)

Yes, here in Wet Yorks we've noticed that the snow comes as a complete surprised to the South every single winter :-)

Up here, cellars are common, and town houses with garages on the bottom are become more so. Four years ago I bought a dishwasher. A week later the in-pipe fell off and in three hours we went through a quarter's water - ruined the carpets in the living room and dining room, went through the floor into the garage, and flooded both neighbours' garages too... Far worse than rain but the people down the road get flooded most winters after the snow melts on the moors.