Thursday, July 19, 2007
Aha!
Do you remember about a month ago when I mentioned that my basement flooded after a torrential downpour? It happened again. Only this time we found the problem. It was about 11 pm two nights ago and Caleb came upstairs to tell me that the basement was flooding. I hurried to the basement and saw that we had nearly a foot of water in the window well. I ran upstairs, got a bucket, and spent the next 10 minutes in the rain bailing out the window well while Caleb vacuumed up the water on the floor. As I was bailing, I realized that I had a steady stream of water flowing in about a foot or so from the bottom of the window. I guess my landscaping job left something to be desired when I put the window in. The rain finally let up enough for the water to seep into the ground. We cleaned up nearly 30 gallons of water in the basement (I have a 6 gallon shop vac that we repeatedly filled). I woke up early the next morning (yesterday) to the crack of thunder and another downpour. This time there was only about one towels worth of water on the floor before I was able to bail out the window well. After the downpour moved on, I built a temporary dam of bricks, plastic and soil and dug out a spillway of sorts to the lawn. It rained again last night (we also had a tornado warning) but my dam held. It was amazing to watch how much water fell in such a short time. Now I just have to wait until this weather system moves on before I can properly landscape the area. It really is too bad that we can't take some of this rain and make it go west where it is really needed. I would imagine that Jess is putting in a lot of hours this fire season.
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Just two nights ago we headed out for a walk. We'd gotten across the street when the rain started coming. It was our first measureable rain in SLC for about 36 days. We're very dry. And burning. I worked 57 hours last week (well, I also went on a fire assignment in person, so that helped).
Glad you found the source of your water. Also glad you don't have carpet installed yet.
Where exactly was the water coming in? Through the foundation? Window? How was it getting inside?
Will you be able to fix the situation so it will totally stop without having to worry about the "dams"?
I'm sorry that you have had the mess. When I was growing up in Benjamin, every time they irrigated in fields next to our place, water would come up through the floor somewhere in the basement and we would get some little black worms of some kind. It always freaked me out!! So sorry for you guys to have to go through the mess!
Sorry to be do slow in reading this, but I am sure glad you found the problem. Now the fix. It is all work, huh.
At least the damage is minimal now, and maybe you can get that carpet in after all.
Dad Clark
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