Water always wins.

[nonelvis]

We're having a slight water event here in the Boston area. Like, about eight inches of rain, apparently, which would certainly explain the inch of water that was in our basement last night, and the two inches there this morning. jagpatel found shop-vacs on sale a few years ago and bought us one; good thing, too, because I filled it at least fifty times this morning. That's not an exaggeration; I was in the basement for an hour and a half, and though I lost count of the bucketfuls somewhere around #38, at a rate of roughly 1.75-2 minutes to fill and drain ten gallons of water, you get fifty buckets.

Huh. The interwebs tell me that's literally more than one ton two tons of water. Go shop-vac!

The basement is busy replenishing its water supply right now, so I figure in another hour or so I'll go back downstairs in a scruffy t-shirt, jeans rolled up to my knees, and my LL Bean boots (I am one sexy beast today, let me tell you), and will vacuum more of this stuff out of the house. Ah, the joys of homeownership.

In other news, in case you are one of the few people who doesn't read XKCD regularly, today's is perfect. (And the rollover text is excellent, as usual.)

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[chloris67.livejournal.com]

I was reading friends of friends and I am hoping like mad that we are not vacuuming out our cellar later today. Last time we had a rain storm like this my husband cracked from the strain of keeping ahead of the flood - many, many fillings of the shop vacs - and put in a sump pump. (It took a year for it to get finished and covered properly but it worked right from the beginning.) It has to stop raining soon, right? Right?

[nonelvis]

The rain is supposed to stop this evening, so if we vacuum every couple of hours, hopefully we'll stay on top of things. I hope your sump pump can keep up with this!

I keep telling myself it could be worse: a friend heard parts of his chimney flying off in the wind Saturday night, and water is now coming in through his roof.