September started a little rough around here. Hurricane Ida passed through our area on Wednesday, September 1st. It brought very heavy rains with it throughout that day. Unfortunately our sump pump in the basement was unable to keep up with the amount of rain we were getting and shut off for a while without us knowing. When the kids came home from school and went to play in the basement, we discovered a watery mess!
We got about 1/4 inch of water throughout the basement. We were able to save most of the belongings since the water level never got high enough to reach most items. We spent that evening wet vacuuming all the water out, removing all the flooring and moving everything so it could dry out. We put industrial floor fans down there for 48 hours until everything dried out.
Here's the mess in the garage that eventually was taken to the dump in different carloads!
We decided to lay down all foam flooring to replace all the ruined stuff and changed the configuration of the basement a bit. As painful as the whole process was to go through, we are grateful that the damage was minimal and we like how it all turned out!
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