Let me just start by saying I have never seen so much rain in my life! I'm not exactly sure how much rain we've gotten but I've heard that we got around 10" since last night!
I realized it was storming hard last night but didn't realize how much. Last night Jeremy decided to do a load of laundry but this morning I remembered that it never got put into the dryer. So I was going to quick throw it in the dryer this morning but when I went into our laundry room I noticed that our rug was pretty wet. Looking around I realized that most of the laundry room floor was wet. Nothing was leaking and the sump pump was running so I had no clue where the water was coming from. After yelling for Jeremy to come look at our wet basement he determined that the sump pump must have overflowed due to all the rain we got over night. Luckily the water was just a thin layer across most of the laundry room floor and slightly under the stairs and into the carpeted living space.
We quickly moved everything out of the way and wiped up some of the water before we had to get to work. At this point I think we had already gotten like 6 inches of rain. It continued pouring all morning and after finding out that one of my co-worker's and another one of Jeremy's co-workers has water seeping into their basement through the walls, I got quite nervous!
Due to the weather, Jeremy was soaked and came home from work at the same time I was coming home to check on the house. Thank god we had no more water in the basement than we did before we left for work. We started moving stuff out of the way and when I went back to work Jeremy got the clean up the water with a shop vac and started drying out the carpet etc.
There are tons of schools around us that are either closed or starting late and both Jeremy and I had to take detours home from work because the normal roads we drive on were covered with water! A couple of the parks in town are flooded, people were evacuated out of their homes, and it just keeps raining!
Check out some pictures of all the water.
I realized it was storming hard last night but didn't realize how much. Last night Jeremy decided to do a load of laundry but this morning I remembered that it never got put into the dryer. So I was going to quick throw it in the dryer this morning but when I went into our laundry room I noticed that our rug was pretty wet. Looking around I realized that most of the laundry room floor was wet. Nothing was leaking and the sump pump was running so I had no clue where the water was coming from. After yelling for Jeremy to come look at our wet basement he determined that the sump pump must have overflowed due to all the rain we got over night. Luckily the water was just a thin layer across most of the laundry room floor and slightly under the stairs and into the carpeted living space.
We quickly moved everything out of the way and wiped up some of the water before we had to get to work. At this point I think we had already gotten like 6 inches of rain. It continued pouring all morning and after finding out that one of my co-worker's and another one of Jeremy's co-workers has water seeping into their basement through the walls, I got quite nervous!
Due to the weather, Jeremy was soaked and came home from work at the same time I was coming home to check on the house. Thank god we had no more water in the basement than we did before we left for work. We started moving stuff out of the way and when I went back to work Jeremy got the clean up the water with a shop vac and started drying out the carpet etc.
There are tons of schools around us that are either closed or starting late and both Jeremy and I had to take detours home from work because the normal roads we drive on were covered with water! A couple of the parks in town are flooded, people were evacuated out of their homes, and it just keeps raining!
Check out some pictures of all the water.
The road Jeremy normally takes home from work.
Our backyard.
One of the parks in town.
