Sorry to hear that you were flooded too. That has to be scary having electrical appliances under water. Could you turn off the breaker that they are on or is your panel in the basement also?

It is in the basement. I could call the utility and have them come and disconnect but I would rather wait for the water to recede before going down there. I am just tired of trying to keep my basement dry and mould free. I can take blame in this a little bit because I don't have a sump pump, I do have a back flow valve but saying that all my neighbours with sump pumps flooded too. To get a sump pump put in I would have to have electrical wiring done. The City will provide a subsidy but it is still too costly. I am going to check with the City again to see what else I can do or what help I can get.

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I'm sorry to hear about your flooding. I hope your water levels go down soon.

3 mil for Xmas lights. I enjoy the holidays like many but that is just crazy..take care of the fine folks that need help..that money could really be spent better. Geesh. And honestly I hear of this sort of thing a lot...citys forking out tons of money on frivolous things...things that at the end of the day are worthless.

Cherryfizz. I'm sorry your going thru this and now will have a mold problem to deal with. I hope someway there is some help.

Cherry, I wouldn't go down there until the water drops, either! Hope your appliances arent ruined.

We were under a tropical storm warning but it never evolved with a center so didn't reach tropical storm status. Had the winds and rain but was more like a nor'easter. I didn't mention it before because it paled in comparison and basically was a non-event. Because of wind sheer from Harvey it was never able to gain strength.

This flooding has gotten out of control over the past few years. I hate to hear that you are experiencing this horrible situation too. It's amazing how fast mold starts growing, like hours! I had no idea till last year. Thank goodness we can't have basements here! Appliances in water is not a good combination. We were so lucky last year my husband wasn't electrocuted.

Good luck with your battle!

The water in my basement receded a few hours ago. I will start the clean up after I get some sleep. Been up for 24 hours.

Took me 3.5 hours to make a normally 10 minute drive last night to get home. I was totally blocked out because of the flooding, and my family was totally blocked in. It was frustrating, but not life threatening so for that I am thankful. We got water in our basement too...will have to rip out some peel and stick tiles and throw out some things that were on the floor (and should NOT have been but that is another story...my poor meat slicer LOL).

Our sump pump gave up the ghost at the very last moment, but made it through the worst of the water or else it would have been up to the step for sure. It would have been even less but a sock managed to block the floor drain.

Now that the water in the sump pit has gone down we will have to figure out if it is just blocked or needs total replacement. If we need to replace, I want a model with back up battery for sure. I figure if we have to replace we might as well upgrade as well!

Couldn't get to MIL's house until about 1am because her street was completely flooded a bit over the curbs and they weren't letting cars go down. She made it sound like her whole house was underwater. She had rain water coming in from her grade entrance, following the wall, then going right into the sump pit. But her sump pump was functioning perfectly and keeping up with the water, so her basement was NOT flooded. Nothing in the path, as that area often gets water so we keep it clear. And since it was actual rain water, the issue of disinfecting isn't there, it just needs to be dried out well so it doesn't mold. We set up fans, then left but I can tell you I was hotter than fish grease! We had our own mess to clean up for pete's sake. Since it had stopped raining, it was nothing but a dripping trickle at that point.

Dances.

cherryfizz - I'm on the west coast and we haven't heard anything about your flooding. I'm so sorry.

In other news - here on the west coast of BC we're breaking heat records and we've only had 7mm of rain since the beginning of July and normal for July and August combined is 70mm. We've had 10% of normal. Crazy stuff.

This is news to me too, and I'm sorry to see it. Cherry, might this have affected OJ? It seems like he is most often alone; I don't know whether his landlord has come home yet from rehab.

No, I don't believe where OJ lives got the rain we did. He is 2 hours East of me. I went down the basement to turn on the fan to start drying it out and I went into the laundry room and saw that my washer decided to do a dance. The bottom is tipped up and the washer is leaning on its back edge. Maybe a good thing because at least the bottom had a chance to dry out. I am going to ask my brother to stop by and put it down for me and check the hoses and make sure it is safe for me to use. I have no hot water so the pilot light must be out on my hot water tank. Called the rental company and they will be here tomorrow morning. They would have come today but I have a scheduled water meter replacement today and the guy will be coming any time between noon and 4 pm. My furnace is up on blocks but I think the water was high enough to reach the pilot light. I will call to get it serviced. I had 3 bins of my Mom's stuff down the basement and despite other floods these stacked bins never moved. They did this time and toppled over and the lids popped open. I am no worried anymore about losing any of my Mom's stuff, she has been gone for a long time now but I am hoping I didn't pack her diaries from when we were all kids in this bins. I can't remember but I would hate to lose them. I am fortunate that is all that is in my basement that could have gotten wet. My lawn tools, weedwackers, etc are up on the workbench. So many around here are losing so much stuff from their finished basements.

No extra water around o j ... actually, haven't had much rain for a while and the beans are somewhat unproductive ... aren't blossoming, that is.

I hauled some water to them a couple of days ago, but haven't got lines set up to make it easier and my back is complaining about too much hauling of water ...

... to make "has beens" ...

... (they don't spell too well, it seems).

And ... it was to keep the beans from quitting ... becoming "has beens"! ... that I was carrying the water.

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I am so happy to find that my Mom's diaries were not in the bins that were in the basement flood. Yesterday I went down and emptied the three bins, boy clothes especially sweaters are heavy when wet. haha I am sure I would have had another foot of water had not these clothes absorbed as much water as they did. I sat on the second bottom step and put the clothes into garbage bags. Some bags I could only put 2 sweaters in because they were too heavy otherwise for me to bring up the steps and out to the curb with my bad back.

All during the night, every 2 hours or so I would bring 2 or 3 bags up the steps and out to the curb. In the morning my neighbour saw how heavy the bags were so she came over and brought the last 4 bags out for me and the 3 large bins. We opened the basement windows to let some air in to start drying things up. Normally my laundry room side dries up quickly because the furnace and hot water tank pilot lights are on but this time they were doused out.

Reliance who I rent my hot water tank from came out yesterday morning and said they could not light the pilot light because where the gas comes out it was filled with water. In the meantime my cousin who owns a company that sells and rents tanks and furnaces called and said he would give be a better deal on renting the tank plus a $200 gift card so I cancelled Reliance. The service guys came today and replaced the tank so at least now I have hot water. I asked them if they would remove my upright freezer to the curb for $50 and they said sure so that was also a relief to get that out of the house. Just as I was going down my porch steps to tape the freezer door shut 2 scrap guys came by and they took it away.

I also just found out the Province and the city are going to pay in full to have sump pumps put in and back flow valves for those that do not have them. Even with sump pumps those that had them they all flooded. I am grateful they are going to pay for them.

I have been sitting on the porch all day because I can't stand being in the house because of the smell. My neighbours have convinced me to call the insurance company because my loss will be more than the deductible because I am sure the washer, dryer and furnace are toast. Because my basement is just cement and unfinished I am luckier than most because every other house around here is used as a living area. People lost so much. One person I know had water gushing out of their third floor toilet and then spilled below through the ceilings.

I know this compares nothing to the floods in Texas but to our community it is devastating none the less. Cars have been trolling the streets all night light and people have been taking items people leave at the curb. My neighbour across the street lost so much and people just stop by and root through his stuff, take whatever, and leave it in a mess. He is getting fed up. One guy tried to take my neighbour's outdoor light post because it is situated at the curb, he thought it was part of the garbage. It was recycling day today and people were actually taking the empty bins thinking they were being tossed out. I don't understand why anyone would want items that have been sitting in sewage. Even big toys that have been thrown out. I am sure most of this stuff will be sold at yard sales or put on kijiji. Just not right.

I need to get my house disinfected asap because I am so afraid of mould. I already sprayed some bio spray on my duct work. My brother's house 2 streets over flooded too, this is their first major flood where they lost everything in the basement rec room and under the crawl space.