We all survived the Great Deluge of ‘06. Well, I hope we all did…
Some of you may know me and my (EZ’s) house – it’s the one with the small mountain out front. The dirt that made that mountain came from the six foot deep ditch next to my house which I dug (well, my friends, who I bribed with $50 in hoagies from Al’s, dug) so I can rewaterproof the basement wall.
Two weekends ago when we had ~2″ of rain I bailed the ditch out with a 5-gallon bucket. Not a lot of fun so I broke down and bought a pump last week from Home Depot.
Lucky me.
Sunday night I had the pump running all night long. For about an hour during the deluge the water in the ditch was rising pretty quickly even with the pump running full-bore and it pumps 5 gal./min. Also the drain outside my basement door backed up and the flooding came to within about 2 millimeters of flooding my basement. But the rain let up, the pump kept running and the flooding in the basement stairwell went away. Given what I’ve read on the DRCA list and heard from neighbors, I’m pretty lucky since my basement is still dry. If I hadn’t had that pump though…
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