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Hope everyone is doing well. I'm off to de-saturate the family room carpet (again), though still grateful that we were just inconvenienced and no one was injured and nothing major was damaged. Some of my NY folks were not so lucky, still waiting for full reports of the damage but my aunt's house was partially submerged yesterday. Thank god she was at a shelter for folks with medical problems in case of power outage.
Glad to hear other's loved ones are making ok, thus far. How you folks in flood prone areas and hurricane land deal with this all the time - well, my hat's off to you!
Hope everyone is doing well. I'm off to de-saturate the family room carpet (again), though still grateful that we were just inconvenienced and no one was injured and nothing major was damaged. Some of my NY folks were not so lucky, still waiting for full reports of the damage but my aunt's house was partially submerged yesterday. Thank god she was at a shelter for folks with medical problems in case of power outage.
Glad to hear other's loved ones are making ok, thus far. How you folks in flood prone areas and hurricane land deal with this all the time - well, my hat's off to you!
Hey FR!! How'd you make out? Any damage/power loss/general unpleasantness??
Yeah, we got about 15" of rain in a few hours over night and it was too much for the sump pump in the crawl space to deal with (without power to keep it running). So the water backed up throughout the crawl space, into the first floor bathroom, the utility room, and part of the family room. Good news is that there wasn't too much damage to the things in the crawl space. I'm a little concerned about the family room carpet though, especially since we don't have much time to replace it (if needed) before the littlest Ewag arrives!!
Ah, well, better than it could be by a wide margin, so I can't really complain.
Sorry Ewag! Getting rid of water sucks. We have been flooded too many times where we live now, no fun.
Thanks, Zim - any helpful hints?? We're running a dehumidifier nonstop and I've been using the steam cleaner to suck up excess water from the carpet. We have a bunch of that Damp Rid stuff as well. Poor DH was under the house bailing out the sump pump by hand yesterday before the power came back on.
Oy vey, I'm sorry you've been through flooding a lot!! Significantly no fun!!
Hey FR!! How'd you make out? Any damage/power loss/general unpleasantness??
Yeah, we got about 15" of rain in a few hours over night and it was too much for the sump pump in the crawl space to deal with (without power to keep it running). So the water backed up throughout the crawl space, into the first floor bathroom, the utility room, and part of the family room. Good news is that there wasn't too much damage to the things in the crawl space. I'm a little concerned about the family room carpet though, especially since we don't have much time to replace it (if needed) before the littlest Ewag arrives!!
Ah, well, better than it could be by a wide margin, so I can't really complain.
Wow! 15"! That's insane. We were OK. Our neighborhood is not flat, and none of the houses are on ground level. I was sleeping on the couch and we had MrFR and MissFR up in our bed because there's a huge Ginko Beloba tree outside MissFR's window - and we were worried it could fall and crash through the roof. The power went out for literally 2 minutes a 2:30am, I thought that that we would be out - but luckily it came back and stayed on. I was pretty nervous after the tornado warning.
So we were just fine. Listen, if you need to replace your carpet or anything else before TheLittlestEwag comes - let me know, MrFR can do any of those kind of things - we would be more than happy to help out.
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Thank god she was at a shelter for folks with medical problems in case of power outage.
