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Waterworld, part 3

posted by [personal profile] cathyr19355 at 10:27pm on 13/02/2008 under ,
I was in the basement just now, attempting to get the several gallons of water absorbed by my throw rugs *out* of the throw rugs, when I noticed that the floor way, way beyond the rug was wet! Horrors! Could this mean the water had encroached even farther than I thought?

It could have, but it didn't. Closer inspection shows that when the wet-dry vac I have is sucking water out of a rug, instead of slurping up actual puddles, it throws a spray of water *out the back vent*. The harder I was scrubbing the rug, the more I was sprinkling the tile behind me.

Whimper....
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posted by [identity profile] pmat.livejournal.com at 03:35am on 14/02/2008
Much sympathy. We also have some flooding, although it sounds like less than you do. I'm glad the frogs were useful, but sorry there was occasion for them to be.
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posted by [identity profile] cathyr19355.livejournal.com at 03:45am on 14/02/2008
Me too. Especially since they woke both of us out of a sound sleep at 4 A.M., and [livejournal.com profile] esrblog does not handle that particularly well. Any recommendations for a contractor I can consult?
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posted by [identity profile] fadethecat.livejournal.com at 03:59am on 14/02/2008
Bad wet-vac, no biscuit!
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posted by [identity profile] cathyr19355.livejournal.com at 04:38am on 14/02/2008
Yes indeed. And bad Cathy too, who tried again close to a bookcase and spattered a couple of books (Fortunately, the few that were spattered were an old. replaceable ring binder and a few paperbacks with plastic-coated covers).
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posted by [identity profile] tafkad.livejournal.com at 04:16am on 14/02/2008
If it makes you feel any better, I once had a housemate who didn't like the tile pattern in the basement. She wanted to put carpet down. I warned her that the basement frequently flooded and that she really didn't want to do this. Did I mention that she's 99% incapable of listening?

Can you say "yellow slime mold"?
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posted by [identity profile] cathyr19355.livejournal.com at 04:40am on 14/02/2008
Ugh. I hope your housemate acquired a better opinion of your advice after the mold reared its ugly, er, head/s.
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posted by [identity profile] tafkad.livejournal.com at 05:25am on 14/02/2008
Would have been wonderful, but that whole "99% incapable of listening" thing kind of trumped everything else.
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posted by [identity profile] cathyr19355.livejournal.com at 07:28pm on 14/02/2008
How unfortunate. I hope the person wasn't your housemate for long.
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posted by [identity profile] tafkad.livejournal.com at 09:57pm on 14/02/2008
Years.
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posted by [identity profile] cathyr19355.livejournal.com at 10:08pm on 14/02/2008
Ouch.
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posted by [identity profile] ddelony.livejournal.com at 03:13am on 17/02/2008
Out in California most people don't have basements. How high is the water table out there?
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posted by [identity profile] landley.livejournal.com at 10:54am on 17/02/2008
In Austin we haven't got basements because we're on granite. (You need drilling and explosives to install a swimming pool, let alone a basement.)
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posted by [identity profile] cathyr19355.livejournal.com at 06:13pm on 17/02/2008
On the bright side, it means that you can't have basement leaks because, hey, no basement. On the other hand, it means less room in your house, unless you build a house with a bigger footprint (though in Austin you can do that; there's plenty of real estate).

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posted by [identity profile] ddelony.livejournal.com at 07:49pm on 17/02/2008
I imagine that not having a basement in a tornado-prone state would be a real gamble.
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posted by [identity profile] landley.livejournal.com at 02:00am on 18/02/2008
Actually we have hills to our west so storms big enough to produce tornadoes are shunted north of us, where they hit a town along I-35 called Jerrold. (Which has been leveled by tornadoes something like three times, yet they keep rebuilding it...)
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posted by [identity profile] cathyr19355.livejournal.com at 06:02pm on 17/02/2008
I have no idea how high the water table is in the vicinity of my house; that sort of thing varies a lot out here in the East.

I can tell you this; my house is a split-level. The room that is the basement, as measured from the front of the house, is actually ground-level in the back, because the house was built into the side of a hill. We have been here since 1996, and the basement used to be bone dry. Even now, it only leaks after a prolonged rain (like, say, steady rain for most of 24 hours).

Even if you had basements in California, I'd bet you don't get rain in those quantities.
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