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so..... today didn't exactly turn out like I had planned when I woke up. Torential driving rains here today.... about 11am it started coming into the garage, and by 1pm it was coming through the front door. Had the shopvac going all afternoon trying to pump it out into the yard, called an emergency rooter service to come snake the drains, dug a trench in the back yard, tried to cut into the pipes, and been bailing water all day....

I've given up. The battle has been lost. I'm soaking wet, tired, and not vvery happy.

Yeah my mom lives in Oahu and had a bitch of a time today. :(

Here...

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You sure can use a bucket of Mikes Hard Lemonade.

:glugglug

show us your tits!

this shit is nuts... it rained more today than it's rained here in years. My shit is floating away.... :(

Damn. My parents were there for 2 weeks getting back on wednesday last week. They said weather was great. I guess they left in time.

wtf? :eek7

Sorry to hear that man. I'm gonna call her again to see if she's still doing ok. :(

Mahalo!

Post some pics!

I feel your pain. My old house had a leaky basement, but it would only leak when the water level would get above a certain point. Usually once a year for the 3 years I was living there.

I eventually had to pay some Basement Boss guys to dig a tile and put a sump pump inside the basement. That actually made more mess than the flooding. Fucking cement dust over all my stuff.

snow today.. damn lake effect.. snowing now.. and oh.. more snowtomarrow.. and te day after.. and then friday to monday.... more and more snow!

I called the hardware store to see if they had any pumps left, but they were sold out... no surprise... and the shop vac couldn't keep up. Wish I could've gotten a pump.

Use your cock pump.
:Graucho

dig a tile and put a sump pump inside the basement...

We're in the process of doing that right now. :) I run a mean hammerdrill!

it's not that easy.... there's not really a basement so to speak. It's a split level, dug into the side of a hill. So it's the middle level that get's flooded. The garage and front door, entry, bathroom, etc... and it rolls downhill from there... office, guestroom, etc... I still don't know if any of that is wet yet, been fighting the battle up there all day. The office looks dry though except by the sliders.

When you get around to doing that, make sure you turn off your HVAC system and section off the area from ceiling to floor with plastic. It will save you a lot of headaches.

no HVAC here to deal with luckily.

Pumps are useless without a pit or dropped in a flooded basement. You'd have been better off with a squeegee. You have a slab home don't you?

If you DO get a pump, go for a high horsepower one. Low ones tend to stop working if they aren't used now and then. And always when you need it the most. lol

These guys deliver too!
http://www.homedepot.com/prel80/HDUS...l.0& MID=9876

yep


I fought valiantly, but alas.... was defeated.

Damn man. That sucks! I don't know what to say, but good luck saving everything you can. That mother nature can be a bitch from time to time.

Thanks E-D. Got it covered. The old man was a contractor for 20+ yrs. ;-) We have a dungeon basement with rip rack walls. The floor is from 1/2" to 6" think. lol We have it about 1/2 done. Just didn't get the pipe out thru the wall to run it yet. But the run in goes to the pit and we pump it out a door if needed.

the bitch wouldn't cut me any slack today.... just when I thought I was making some progress, she'd open up and drown me again.

thank god for beef jerky and Coors Light.

LOL isnt aaronM headin over there amp?

yeah... hope he's bringin' a snorkel.

Buy a few tubes of caulk N peel Amp. And some GOOD ratchet type caulking guns. Make sure to get new tubes every couple of years. If it happens again, seal the areas it came in before. Once its over, (and the caulk is set,) just peel it off and wash. ;-)

haha oh man and he was bragging about he was going on a nice vaction and going to get some nice weather


:1orglaugh karma bitch KARMA

there is nothing that Gem and H couldn't fix by themselves, now is there? :Graucho

hahaha.... I would've need a tanker truck full of caulk today.... lol

the garbage man is gonna love me tomorrow.....

Not many Eq. ;-) He flabbergasts me sometimes when something breaks and he just fixes it and I do the gofer work. (Translation, get the dirtiest usually) I had to hook up with someone that thinks analytically. Its like living with a machine sometimes. Grrr

look at the positive side, good time to invest in a nice boat

the worst part is these fuckers on the radio.... they go through the list of roads that are closed due to flooding, and then they top it off by saying "we need the rain"....

mutherfuckers, I DON'T NEED THE FUCKING RAIN!

tanker truck full of caulk...



OH! You didn't say you were ill equipped in the caulking gun dept! My bad! lmao :winkwink:

:thumbsup Old standby's can't be beat...

think I'm gonna need a bigger shop vac....

trouble in paradise?

me and the shop vac got it handled. No trouble here.

When this is over....and, you're not so unhappy.....you could put a french drain system around the perimeter of the house to divert the water...

hmmm.... I might have to do that, but only if I can call it a "freedom drain"....

Damn! sorry to hear that bro!
Hope things will dry out!... :warning

I could dig a moat... that'd be cool....

That sucks..went through the same shit...what a hassle..ripping down drywall and replacing a ton of stuff. :(

Our house was a chalet before the addition with a root cellar that would flood every year.

We had the back hoe guy dig a deep trench behind the place to solve the flooding .:)

2:12am....


it's pouring again.... and the water is coming in again.


back to the rubber boots and the shop vac.

freaky shit.. we've actually had thunder here all day.. and again now.....


normal for most everywhere else, but there is NEVER thunder here.....


ever.



and every time it roars across, the sky cracks open a little more and floods my fucking house another 4 inches.

I was thinking of you when this pic was taken yesterday.

http://ampcontent.com/Pics/Florida/Florida150.jpg


Now...Grab a mop and get back to work. You have 4 days until I arive and I expect it to be the paradise that you keep bragging about.

Note to self.......

"A man and his Castle"

The autobiography by:
Amputate Your Head.

It sounds like you need a good french drain system. Since you are handy with the mitre saw, you could probably even install it yourself. French drains rule, it solved a huge problem I had with my last house. Basically exactly as you described...3 stories built into a hillside, main level/front door on the front side that the whole yard slopes towards, basement and garage in back. Water came in the front door and also into the garage at the back. We had french drains installed in one day that totally stopped it all.
Look into it, you won't be disappointed.

French drains are the modern equivalent of moats.

Yeah but it's not as cool to put gators in a french drain.

The waves have been nice the past week. What else can you say?