water was coming up the drain near the washer. I grabbed the shop vac and tried to suck it up. I also started putting towels down thinking I could contain it to one area. J went to the hardware to find a pump so if it got real bad we could pump it. It seems like he was gone for ever. It was coming in faster than Zesa and I could clean it up. I called T&P to see if they could come and help and if the knew any one with a pump. They were trapped in their subdivision, the water was worse by them. I called some friend to help and they came with buckets, shop vacs and two other guys to help. All this time J is still trying to find a pump because they were gone from the shelves in the stores. We started a chain of people up the stairs 6 of us and passed buckets up
the stairs to empty them out side. It is still pouring out there. That did not help. One funny moment that happened to my friend Joanie, she is always saying she is a princess and can't do alot of things around the house, so her husband helps her alot, but she was being a trooper and was helping us bail the water outside. The water is a dirty brown and we are not really sure if it is sewage. Joanie and I were on the bottom floor filling buckets and handing them to everyone one on the stair steps. Zesa's handle on her bucket broke and the water went all over Joanie on her head and everything, she yelled out "Hey you guys remember I'm a princess" I just laughed at her and said, You've been de-throned.. We had to laugh or we would just cry.... They called our friend Donna and she came over with a pump and hooked it up. J finally got home, the only thing he could find was a pump that you would use to pump water from a swimming pool. After a while he hooked that up also and ran that one too. The water was coming in faster than the two pumps could pump it. By now the whole basement was in about 4 inches of water. We tried to put everything up high, but still had shelves and such on the floor that we could not put up. I went outside to check on our neighbor and to move the hose that was from the sump pump so that the water would go to the street. I was soaking wet, because the rain was still coming down. The neighbor gave me another pump and hose, so I gave it to Zesa and she hooked it up to the other side of the basement. Three pumps and four hoses going out to the street and it was still coming up... As the water was coming up some of my 18 gallon containers that I have holiday items in tipped over and was floating all over.. some got water in them. The rain stopped about 4 hours later and the the water went down in the street. The water was over the bottom step in the basement. It was still pumping it out but the water was coming in and it was only keeping up enough so that it did not get deeper. We kept the pumps running all day.. the neighbors brought us burger king for lunch, and we just waited for the water to go down. J and Joanie brought us dinner and sat with us for a while. At 11:00 pm the water was gone, but the mess!!!!!!!!!!!
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sounds like you have some sweet neighbors and friends - sorry about the mess :(
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