Being a home owner is sweet until the flood

Deadpool66

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So yesterday my wife calls me as Im getting ready to leave work and says you need to come home now. Apparently there was water coming in through the wall in the basement. Then I recive another call its coming in from almost every side. Suffice to say it was the longest drive home in traffic ever. I instructed her to throw every blanket, towel, and old clothes on the floor. It was such a disaster but fortunatley most of my games are on pads and dont just sit on the floor. 12 hours later and its almost back to normal.


Heres somthing I learned always have a wet dry vac on hand I learned that the hardway. Also dont leave your mame computer on the floor next to the cabinent. Finally fix your gutters when they break ;-)
 
Everything survived unscathed the mame cab is a diehard so its basically water proof. I decided to put the pc in the cab and surprise surprise it still works got lucky there.
 
I feel for you. I had the same thing happen to me last December. We had 6 inches of rain in about 3 hours. Our drainage system was not even remotely capable of handling the water. It was a MAJOR pain in the ass to get all of the carpet dried out and to replace the soaked padding. Turned my life upside down for nearly a week...

Lee
 
sorry to hear about your flood, but at least the games are ok. at least you don't have the possibility of getting hit with a tornado...
 
Just curious if anyone here has this kind of flooding problems (not just leaks) with walkout basements. I'm just wondering if flooding typically happens with basements that are completely below ground level on all sides. Your experiences?
 
been there lost a few games saved most.. im so glad i dont live at that place anymore heh

if i was smart id have all my games up but so far my basement has been 100% dry. glad to hear all were saved man.
 
Whenever my wife looks at a house, she says "It has a basement for your games!"
and I always remind her about how basements flood...

I doubt a walkout basement would have the same issue, unless you live in a flood zone
 
I live at the base of a mountain, on a hill/incline near the bottom. When it rains REALLY hard, runoff from the mountain coming down behind the house causes lots of water to need to be "diverted" from behind and around the back of the house. We have a good drainage system, and thankfully in order for any moisture to enter the basement you need an INSANE rain storm. Something that they call a "100 year storm". The only problem? I have lived in this house since 2001, and there have been TWO so-called "100 year storms" while we have lived here. The first was (I believe) in May of 2003 when we had 8 inches of rain over the course of one day. The other, and most recent one, was last December 18th (just in time for Christmas!) where we had approximately 6 inches in abour 3 hours. The 2003 storm did not flood the gameroom/arcade, but DID move a lot of water through our crawl space, and at that time we were working on turning that area into a theater. This last storm, however, was so intense over such a short period of time that water came in along all exterior walls of the gameroom (including those that are "deep/fully" underground) AND water came up through the slab under the theater as well. Not fun...
 
I have a walkout basement and when I first moved here it would flood real bad. I spent years waterproofing and I have it pretty much solved now but it still weeps in after heavy rain.
The problem is its an older house and it was built on solid red clay. Back then they didnt have to use sand or gravel under the foundation. I french drained the front side of the house and plan on doing the back side probably this summer.
 
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