9 August 2007
A Little Less Rain Please
Posted by Poppa under: Thoughts .
Most everyone in our area has a brown yard from the grass being cooked by the sun (or they have a green yard and huge water bill). It’s been such a dry summer here… up until a few days ago. It’s rained at some point every day now for probably the last 4 days. The yards are all turning back to the color their supposed to be, and all has been well up until this morning when I woke up to find my laundry room submerged in about 2 inches of water.
It had rained at some point during the night. Only about an inch and a half of rain fell from what I can tell, but if you add that to the 4 inches or so we’ve got over the last few days, and things can get kinda yucky. I’m not completely sure I know where the water came from yet at this point, but I’m pretty sure it came up through the drain in the middle of the floor in the laundry room. There was so much water at one point, it also spread into the kitchen area.
Doesn’t look like any permanent damage to anything other than starting my day off on the wrong foot. But will be able to tell more when I get home from work today. There’s some fans and stuff running in the furnace room to dry out the areas of the floor in there that I couldn’t get to with a towel this morning.
There’s been at least two more storms that have gone over my house since I got to work today, so hopefully I don’t come home to another mess. I will have some mopping to do though (with plenty of bleach).
Update: Alright, home from work to find no more flooding! The fans have dried out the furnace closet area well. Time to get the mops and bleach out and get everything back to normal. BTW from the looks of the swimming pool, we got at least another 1/2 inch of rain today while I was at work - the pool is almost overflowing.