Thanks Ike!

After 2 solid days of rain, I had to call Jeremy home from work yesterday. We had some water in our basement.

Yes, that's 3 1/2 inches of water and it was cold! In seven years - this is the most water we've had - even more than when our water main broke!

Our basement isn't livable space. Anytime it rains a lot we get water in our basement. There is a channel around the floor that takes the water to a drain under the stairs which flows out into a storm creek in our backyard. The creek normally has about 6 inches of water. Last night it had about 4-5 FEET and had gone down from earlier. When the creek is that high, our drain stops working. Jeremy stopped at Home Depot on his way home from work, bought a pump and we pumped the water out into our sewer trap for a few hours - going down to the basement every 15/30 minutes to clean the filter on the pump. The creek finally went down about 11 PM and our drain started working again. I did see some dry spots down there this morning. Yay!!