Pacemaker Fishing Forum

Mine is dry as a bone.  Neighbor said his rain guage showed over 8" since Monday here.

I live down the street from a concrete bottom drainage creek. My backyard is technically in a flood plane that has flooded my backyard before but it has never made it around the house to the stairs that go down to the basement. Water was literally waterfalling down those stairs and filling the space at the bottom of the stairs where it leaked in via a doorway. The water was only a few steps from being on our main floor. That would have been disastrous as it has the nicer furniture and more valuables. I don't know why but for some reason the water started receding all of a sudden. It was still raining hard but the water just started draining somewhere else. It was as if someone blew a dam some where downstream that allowed the water to drain somewhere other than my basement.

Obviously pics will follow in the near future.

Really sorry to hear from Dan.  That is nasty looking.

We had recently run a water line from the basement to the barn.  Didn't seal the hole in the wall very well and got about 150 gallons per hour at the peak yesterday.  Had it falling into a 50 gallon trash can with wheels so not much serious damage.  Amazing how much water can come in through a very small opening.

Made any casts down there yet?

Hope there isn't too much damage.

Glad to hear you have flood insurance.  Sounds like they'll be getting you replacement stuff.  Make sure you take pictures of everything that is damaged for the ins co.  No  matter how small or inexpensive, document every item befor eyou throw anything away.  Makes getting the ins co to pay up quicker and fairly.

Sorry to hear that Dan, if you need anything call me.  was there any white perch in there.
mo

We now have everything cleared out of the basement (two bedrooms, long hallway, utility room with furnace and water heater which need replaced, bathroom and laundry room). Tomorrow we pull the wood paneling off the walls. We have 4 box fans and 2 dehumidifiers running non-stop.