13 hours of pumping water from basement

[fireman17]

After spending most of Saturday night pumping basements on the job with the fire department my wife calls at 7 a.m. to tell me when our house lost power our pump seized and now the entire basement is flooded. Had her call the local fire department and I grabbed a pump from my station and headed home. Had five inches of water and extensive damage to boxes of family items in the basement as I was pumping by the broken pump I couldn't figure out why so much water was still in the basement.
Went to the front of the basement by our sewer trap area and found more water coming in from under the foundation had to get a second pump just for there.
It's now 6 a.m. and having a coffee after pumping water for over 13 hours the water is still coming in and pumps are still running.
We have a PODS unit coming Monday morning to salvage the non damaged boxes and a dumpster for all the damaged stuff. Hopefully we can save some of the damaged items in those boxes.
Going to be a long day today

 

[unkadug]

Sorry to hear this. Good luck on your salvage mission. As someone who has lost EVERYTHING in a fire, I know your grief. However, it's important to keep things in perspective. The items you lost were just things...possibly irreplaceable things, but just things all the same.

Keep your head up. :wave:

 

[zurgandfriend]

Thank You and good luck

We got hit hard by the weekend rainstorm also, 8 inches 0f rain (20+ cm for our friends and neighbors). Add that to the 3 inches (7.62 cm) we got a couple of weeks ago, plus the melting snow, and the rivers and streams are dangerously high or overflowing. We have wide spread flooding in the Boston area, and boy the Arc jokes got old fast.
Hopefully nothing of great value, financial or sentimental, was ruined in the basement flood. I would also like to thank you and all the fire fighters. They have been working around the clock here to pump out basements. Many of my DW’s elderly parishioners called looking for help with flooded basements. DW (the minister) called the fire department who always responded without delay.
Yesterday my WDW support group was e-mailing vacation pictures to each other to remind ourselves of what the sun looked like. Hopefully we can both get back to WDW soon and this we just be a bad memory, until then good luck.

 

[rsoxguy]

I'm very sorry to hear of your troubles. Having lived through the damage caused by a few hurricanes, I know that the next few days will be a real chore. One step at a time is the only way to go. I wish you well.

 

[ABigBrassBand]

Wish you the best of luck. We live in Brazil currently, but our house in the US is apparently completely wrecked from the storm, we're trying to fix that up now.

 

[tigsmom]

After spending most of Saturday night pumping basements on the job with the fire department my wife calls at 7 a.m. to tell me when our house lost power our pump seized and now the entire basement is flooded. Had her call the local fire department and I grabbed a pump from my station and headed home. Had five inches of water and extensive damage to boxes of family items in the basement as I was pumping by the broken pump I couldn't figure out why so much water was still in the basement.
Went to the front of the basement by our sewer trap area and found more water coming in from under the foundation had to get a second pump just for there.
It's now 6 a.m. and having a coffee after pumping water for over 13 hours the water is still coming in and pumps are still running.
We have a PODS unit coming Monday morning to salvage the non damaged boxes and a dumpster for all the damaged stuff. Hopefully we can save some of the damaged items in those boxes.
Going to be a long day today

It was a bad storm. The DH got called to a water in the basement call and they found 4 ft there and the house was on TOP of a hill!! My BIL has had 3 pumps running since Saturday evening and he is just keeping up with the water. 40 in of snow plus all that rain killed us. We were lucky though that we don't live in a town that was completely inundated & cut off from the rest of the world (like a few around here). I'm just grateful our sump pump didn't give out and we didn't lose power

Hope you can clean up quickly and save some of your family's things ((HUGS))

 

[miles1]

Sorry to hear about this. I've been through it a couple of times and it certainly isn't any fun. You've definitely got the right idea to chuck out anything that got soaked- otherwise you'll be dealing with a huge mold problem very quickly. Hopefully you haven't lost anything that irreplaceable.

For some reason Coastal Connecticut got really hammered by this storm. I live about 30 miles inland (Danbury), and it wasn't all that bad here. The usual spots got a couple of feet of water but not too bad. Yesterday I had to do some driving down in the Fairfield to Greenwich corridor for work and I couldn't believe the damage down there. HUGE, 100+ year old trees down everywhere! Thousands of people still don't have power there, four days later.

It used to be we'd see this kind of damage from a Cat I or Cat 2 hurricane. I think the weather patterns are definitely changing, and not for the better.