Floodwater rising...solved the puzzle!

[infernalis]

Originally Posted by Aaron_S

You know Wayne you could use it as a reason why you need to renovate the man cave. Dorothy would fall for it You need that new top of the line recliner and big screen tv because "water" damaged your old stuff.

She already conned me into getting her a HD big screen as a monitor for her laptop

"Baby, I can't really read the text on my laptop, the screen is too small"

Out of everything down there, the century old hand carved church pew concerns me most, how would anyone ever replace that?

I went on a service call 12 years ago and they were re-modeling the building, the contractors stuffed all the antique furniture into a dumpster bin! I was only able to get one of the pews, everything else was destroyed as trash.

[Aaron_S]

I don't know how high the water currently is but what about lifting the pew onto some 2x4's in the mean time? It might be damaged by humidity but not by actually touching the water.

[infernalis]

Originally Posted by Aaron_S

I don't know how high the water currently is but what about lifting the pew onto some 2x4's in the mean time? It might be damaged by humidity but not by actually touching the water.

It's still exactly where it was in the pic on post 8.

I am running a propane heater down there right now to drive the humidity out, Plus all that ice cold water under the slab has turned my basement into a 50 foot refrigerator.

[Reptile_Reptile]

Originally Posted by infernalis

It's still exactly where it was in the pic on post 8.

I am running a propane heater down there right now to drive the humidity out, Plus all that ice cold water under the slab has turned my basement into a 50 foot refrigerator.

now you know how my man cave is lol its a construct it yourself garage so its cold as hell. a lot of the time outside is colder.

[percey39]

Originally Posted by infernalis

It's still exactly where it was in the pic on post 8.

I am running a propane heater down there right now to drive the humidity out, Plus all that ice cold water under the slab has turned my basement into a 50 foot refrigerator.

Thats good news about the pump being silent. I wish you best of luck keeping all the water in your well and not rising.

[infernalis]

Thanks everyone, it's holding it's own right now.

[infernalis]

Not anymore, its all over the floor, this sucks!!!

[percey39]

Sorry to hear mate, any chance of running all the pumps at the same time once they have been fixed?

[Damion930]

Oh man that's a lot to deal with wayne hope thers not to much damage best of luck to you and yours.

[infernalis]

I have two on right now, it only pulled it down a little bit.

Been moving stuff to "higher ground"

I set the church pew up on the coffee table, the hardest part is we also use the basement for a storage unit, so there is tons of stuff stacked on the floor, I just threw a bunch of computers and monitors out into the yard, it's all obsolete crap anyhow.

My PAL television was on the floor, thankfully it did not get wet, moved it upstairs. Again, it's rather obsolete since nearly all of the new HD televisions are multi standard capable, it's just the value to me, since back when I had it imported, it cost me a small fortune to get it, and I do still watch those old European VHS tapes from time to time.

A bunch of my power tools got wet, and two piles of laundry are soaked.

Break time is over... Back to work.

[Sapphyr]

Oh wow D: Sorry to hear that Wayne... Hope the power tools are ok, sure you can just wash the clothing thoroughly and throw it in the dryer.

Hope no further damage is done and mother nature stops trying to smack your house around :c ... particularly your storage man cave.

[infernalis]

One thing is for certain, I will never be thin unprepared again.

The thing that makes this so bad is that our whole valley here was cut by a glacier and when the ice melted at the end of the ice age, all of the small rocks were left behind.

I dug down 12 feet with a backhoe, and its nothing but gravel after about the first few inches of soil, the bedrock is underneath that way down, so that leaves us sitting on top of a vein of gravel that is about a mile wide and 40 miles long.

Those conditions are perfect for underground rivers, and add in the fact that the first settlers here re-routed the creek from the middle of the valley to the base of the hill, the water wants to follow the original path, consequently right under my house.

[infernalis]

I have been up all night, so I think I'm going to have a power nap, I just checked and the water level has dropped enough that the floor is already drying up.

[Sapphyr]

Ohhh wow :c I'm guessing there's no plans for the nearest city to be fixing that up? It's a shame, really.

Glad to hear things are, at least, getting a little better. Hope you have a very restful nap

[infernalis]

Originally Posted by Sapphyr

Ohhh wow :c I'm guessing there's no plans for the nearest city to be fixing that up? It's a shame, really.

Thanks so much, I actually smiled when I read that.

Closest thing to a real city is 100 miles away in either direction.

We have a few towns that are 25 miles or so away that resemble little cities, but those entire zip codes have populations so small that if they opened a second Burger King or dollar store, one of them would go bankrupt from lack of business.

The last time I worked for a company rather than myself, it was a 100 mile round trip commute every day just to go to work.

We had a 4th of July party out back once and we stacked dead trees up in the field, sprayed kerosene all over it and shot roman candles into the brush pile, the flames reached up some 30-40 feet into the air, and no authorities got called.

Thing is, I like it this way, would never trade it for anything.

I can walk out my back door, keep walking for over half an hour and still be on my own property.

We don't even have any zoning laws.