place of nathan.

i have lived in my house about five years. about two years ago, i finished all the hardwood floors upstairs, and moved all the carpet from upstairs to downstairs.

Before i moved the carpet down, i installed a backup sump pump. it is one of those nifty little pumps that works on city water pressure.

About a year ago, i had a little ‘bug’ in the system, and i needed to leave the water pressure ‘off’ to the backup pump, which means the only way it is on is if i turn it on.

Well, you know what’s coming, don’t you? Last night at around 2 a.m., the power went off (ice storm), which rendered my normal sump pump useless. and of course, i am asleep this whole time, so in the meantime the reservoir fills up, and begins to overflow. And the water comes up cracks all over the basement floor.

And I am sound asleep.

About 5:45 i woke up and looked to see what time it was. nothing. it was blank. ‘oh crap’ i thought.

i remembered the last time it flooded, i had six inches in my basement…when i went to bed last night the sump pump was pumping every five minutes or so…i jumped up, stumbled into the hallway, stubbed my toe on a clothes basket in the hallway and found my way to my manly mag-light, and down the basement. it was dry at the bottom of the stairs (yeah!) i took a few more steps, dry…a few more, squish. ‘crap’ i thought, i’m too late. there was maybe 1/2″ or 3/4″ on the ground…

so i flipped on teh backup, and went back upstairs, and couldn’t sleep.

now, i have my work cut out for me tonight.
and tomorrow.
and the next day…

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