AGAIN!
5 inches and still coming, Sump pump cannot keep up with water all around foundation, just disgusted!
Leak detectors worked great telling me that I’m EFFED by IDA,
FFFFFFFFAAAAQ IDA!!
Muto-
That truly sucks. Hope not too much get ruined
All the Best,
Jeff
The track set up right over you Muto. We have been slightly luckier than you. Hopefully it gets out of here quickly. The heaviest is still coming here.
I don’t want to come off as a whiner, as I know many others have it much worse.
Just that having been a child during Agnes 1972 and being displaced for 8 months while house rebuilt and then again by some other POS storm in 1976 with just enough water on 1st floor to totally trash all the work in 1972 pretty much has damaged me psychologically because of flooding at that point.
Where I now reside for the last 23 years I am forced to purchase flood insurance that you can never really make a claim on unless your foundation gives way or house gets destroyed. And $10,000 deductible. My as well get the money out of your wallet and set it on fire because you are never going to get a claim,
Legalized Extortion is what I call it.
Flood map literally starts at my corner, so person across the street, No flood ins! Love my Government:)
Normal times the small creek next to me is ankle deep. The creek did not jump the road this time, it was just an accumulation of ground water coming down off the hills into already saturated ground that made water come in all around foundation faster than the sump pump can deal with. Even if I had another sump it probably would not keep up.
Once it slows the sump will do it’s job and then we are left with the fun part of wet/dry vacs and lots of fans/ dehumidifiers.
Enough babbling from me, hope everyone stays safe, Better days are a Comin’!!
Keith
I feel your Pain —- We have a house in Baton Rouge and another house in Mandeville—We were very lucky —No real damage —but you still have all the cleanup—I have been working my A—S off —— the people behind our house in BR couldn’t afford to take down a shit tree —so you guessed it —there’s a big section of it across the edge of our driveway in the back —any way —Hang in there
Floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, blizzards, fires all suck. All my best to everyone in the way of climate-related troubles.
Ouch Muto.
My condolences on your flooding.
Out here in California, it’s as dry as a bone. We’re lucky if we get 2 or 3 decent storms each year.
Yikes Muto. I’m seeing some of the flooding on TV right now. Hang in there.
Was going to say move upstream or up hill but seems there's trouble that comes with that as well ...
Annie makes all things a little better .
As sparks fly upward Job 5:7
Anybody heard from CNCman—he is right down there where it first made landfall…
Can you get to a Home Depot fast and get a bigger pump?
Man, that sucks. I have a gas engine 3 inch transfer pump that I can lower the hose into my basement. Have not needed it in 20 years, knock on wood.
It’s all good, misery is not a competition and we all need to vent sometimes 
Sorry to hear that you’re having issues. We had basement issues in the past for different reasons. On our old property it was because the sewers backed up from all of the rain. Another issue in another house, the basement window drainage clogged up.
Some short and long term things that might help…
Short term:
- You can get a backup water pump and long hoses to supplement the sump pump. I was able to use a backup water pump that hooked up to garden hoses to pump excess water into window drainage when our sump pump and backup went out (happened late at night so I had to wait for the hardware stores to open to get and install a new sump pump).
2. Make sure your gutter downspouts are clear. If they are filled with debris, more water overflows and falls down around the foundation.
3. Make sure your sump pump’s outside pipes aren’t leaking, overflowing, clogged, or broken. If the water is pumped out but it’s overflowing near your foundation because of a clog or leak, the water is just going right back to the foundation.
4. If your street sewer drains are clogged and water is coming onto your property, you might try using a rake to clear debris away from the drainage openning.
Long term:
- Make sure the grading outside your house is taking water away from the foundation. For some older houses, over the years erosion can alter your grading to funnel a lot of the rain back towards the foundation.
2. Get a sump pump and backup that pumps out more water per pump.
3. Make swales around the property to funnel away heavy rains to the proper drainage areas.
In some cases, too much water is just too much water. If the street is flooded up to your doorstep, there’s not much you can do. Additionally, if your area has a sewage system and it’s backing up, there’s not much you can do right away. IIRC, there are very expensive options that stop local sewers from backing up onto your property. However, I think they cost around $7k-$15k to have one installed.
I’m lucky we didn’t get flooded. Sometimes a sudden surge would even blow off the grating over the “sewer” (or whatever it’s called; square metal plate with holes in it) in the yard, like popping a cork.
Did take the opportunity and used the rapids to clean out not just the sidewalk but the asphalt under the cars (where filth collects, dries out, and gets caked on). Shiny clean today.
Man, was like a monsoon. Visibility was zero.
How did you make out Muto? I saw on the news that tornadoes were in your area.