Well... just two months (and a lot of hard work) after getting our basement back in working order we are dealing with everything again... and this time it's worse (and this time there is a bedroom down there).

We woke up to the sound of a small river in our basement. It was kind of crazy how quick the water was flowing.

We've figured out that the water on our street drains here at the bottom of the hill across the street from our house...

When there is so much rain (like this morning from the remnants of Ike) and the water has nowhere to go.... it comes out here...



We just moved Fred's room to the basement so he could have a space that was all his own for his senior year. Last time the basement flooded no water touched this room. Today it was covered in water. Fred doesn't know yet. This room holds pretty much every possession of his... and most of it was on the floor because he was going to organize when he got back tonight. We feel awful.
We had to open the basement door so the water had somewhere to go...

Here is Dan's office. I was going to put up pictures of his newly organized office as soon as we got pictures up on the wall. He lost several books in the last flood... so he made sure our new bookshelves were high off the ground.


I know this is nothing compared to what so many have experienced from this storm... thankfully we did not lose power or having any flooding in the main part of our house.