8 Gallons of water were sucked out of my office carpet by the shop-vac.

8 gallons.

Carpet has now been upgraded from swampy to damp.

Yee. Ha.

...right into our basement.

Damn it.

Ok, had the guy from Roto-Rooter out today. the router they use is much better than the one I rented from home depot ( Read more... )

This is really beginning to piss me off ( Read more... )

Ok, no rain. No snow. Now precipitation of any kind ( Read more... )

I am typing this entry from my new computer desk in my rearranged office.


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The damn basement flooded again today.

This wouldn't be so bad if Tara and I didn't use it for our bedroom!  With four kids in a three bedroom house we don't have a lot of choice.

The rain gods have decided that our area needed a serious "blessing" and dumped a metric assload of rain on us.  The field where Caitlin used to play soccer is a lake.  ( Read more... )

Rain poured out of the skies today with all the subtlety of an anvil in a roadrunner cartoon. It soaked into the hydraulic cement patch I put up last time and seeped through to create standing water in the basement ( Read more... )