This will help.
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April 30, 2011 8:03 a.m. 914Driver SuperDork
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April 30, 2011 8:10 a.m. DrBoost SuperDork
Yes I am actually, thanks for that.
I came home from work yesterday afternoon to find my basement under as much as 4" of water. I spent the next 7 hours with a shop vac (it's tough to lift a full shop vac up to a utility sink, 50 times!). -
April 30, 2011 8:18 a.m. Toyman01 SuperDork
Doc, sorry to hear about the basement. That sucks. Hope nothing was permanently damaged.
Thanks for the link 914. I wasn't in a bad mood, but now I'm in a better one. A baby's laugh is almost addictive, and certainly contagious.
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April 30, 2011 8:24 a.m. 914Driver SuperDork
I would be in the same boat as the Dr. if it weren.t for the three floor drains in my basement. I have a puddle that meanders through every spring.
9:30, I'm off to the airport, cumies are forming!
Dan
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April 30, 2011 8:38 a.m. mattmacklind SuperDork
Thats a good one. Reading those rage comics makes me laugh too.
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April 30, 2011 8:47 a.m. petegossett SuperDork
Had 14" in the basement Wednesday morning. I think I live on an aquifer. Fortunately the furnace & water heater are both elevated since there's almost always some water down there.
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April 30, 2011 9:04 a.m. John Brown SuperDork
My house has axles. I never get flooded. I did whack myself in the cheek and broke a tooth this morning while installing a set of wheels.
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April 30, 2011 9:28 a.m. WilberM3 HalfDork
DrBoost wrote:
Yes I am actually, thanks for that.
I came home from work yesterday afternoon to find my basement under as much as 4" of water. I spent the next 7 hours with a shop vac (it's tough to lift a full shop vac up to a utility sink, 50 times!).my solution to that was i bought a bottom fed water pump from sears for like $90, put a hose on it and ran the vac till it fills, remove the vac top and drop in the water pump into the bucket and keep switching back and forth. it was seriously like 10 times faster than moving the vac to pour out.
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April 30, 2011 11:09 a.m. DrBoost SuperDork
Wilber, that would have been SOOOO worth $90. I shoulda thunk of that. Well, the standing water is pretty much gone, folks from the congregation came in and pitched in to the point that I can take a few mins out to post this. Now the clean up begins.....
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April 30, 2011 11:25 a.m. Lesley SuperDork
Ugh. I used to get that regularly, but with floaters
Tree roots + 100 year old sewer pipes is not a good combination.
I had to become a colossal pain in the ass with the city before they fixed it.
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April 30, 2011 1:27 p.m. mad_machine SuperDork
Molly (the kid) has a great laugh. Thanks for sharing.
Doc.. that sucks, been there, done that... I do feel for you.
