So much for loafing...

[judecorp]

Three words:

Water
In
Basement

What started out as a plan two hours ago to leisurely grab the laundry before enjoying a tasty lunch turned into a hauling, moving, pushing, dripping, unpacking, repacking, wiping, stacking extravaganza!

Now my belly is hurting and Jen is off to acquire a wet/dry vac and a dehumidifier, neither of which we were planning to buy right now. As the rain washes away, so does the savings.

We're fortunate, though - the casualties include six wet books and the ironing board cover. Miraculously most of the boxes that got wet (most of the boxes were on rubbermaid bins but at least 7 were sitting in standing water) were extra-thick big boxes for things like computers and appliances, and the water didn't even make it through. We've sure got a lot of wet, soggy boxes to throw out, though. Too bad garbage pickup was, oh, three hours ago.

Perhaps now, though, I can have a little lunch.

Comments

[aminahfiddler.livejournal.com]

Yuck... I rented a house and the basement would flood sometimes.

By the way, if you want to save the books. Freeze them. That will dry them out and not let them grow mold. Aparently once they are frozen, you can pull them out, let the ice fall off and they will be ok.
Ok, you have to dry them a bit before you put them in... but you get the point.

Good luck with the rest of the stuff.

[ladygreyy.livejournal.com]

Ugh. I'm sorry.

[whuffle.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Sounds like our unplanned replacement of all our water pipes. Glad that the losses were minimal though.

[andriagirlie.livejournal.com]

Good times those wet basements are. We got it here too.

[mnsnstar.livejournal.com]

Oh no!! I dealt with that over a year ago, when we got pounded by 14 inches of rain and then almost 4 of those inches were in our basement. It was so surreal seeing books and video tapes floating around the basement floor!! It took us months to clean everything up!

I hope it won't take too terribly long to get everything back to normal!

Good luck, kiddo!

[siercia]

Oh no!

What a pain in the butt. We had that happen a year (or maybe two, now?) ago. Such a terrible surprise when I wandered down to do some laundry myself.

Thanks goodness you didn't lose to much!

[kjames.livejournal.com]

that SUCKS!!!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Our basement has never had so much as a drop of water. This is a freak thing. (I hope it stays that way.)

Thanks for the tip on the books! Most of them just got wet on the spines/covers so I wiped them off, but I will check the others for mold. Ewwww!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Me too.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Not the greatest timing, but when is it ever?

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Yucko!!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Well, it seems like everything is done coming in. Now we just wait for the floor to dry out. Poor kitties want to go back down there so badly!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, nothing beats that surprise. Hello, water!

Here's hoping it's just a freak occurrence. I don't really want to repeat it. :)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Totally!

[mnsnstar.livejournal.com]

We had to keep our one kitty from being down there for over a month while we got things dried out. Hubby had so many boxes down there that got destroyed. I didn't think we would ever get the basement dry. Now we've got the sump pump and insurance on it so we're covered 100% for any damage/loss.

Poor kitties!

Don't you overdo up there!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I opened the basement windows today and it's nice and sunny and warm, so here's hoping everything is groovy now! Yay!