We had a very heavy rainstorm yesterday and ended up with 6" of water in our basement ~ Last year we had our basement "waterproofed" ~ We paid a lot of money for them to come in and install a french drain and a sump pump ~~~A lot of good it did us yesterday!~~~ Just in time for yesterdays deluge, the sump pump stops working and the rains poured down and the water level just rose! Now Danny & I were both NOT happy about this; however, he was much more upset because a lot of his things (like fishing equipment, reloading materials and dirt bike riding accessories to name a few!) are kept in the basement and a lot of it got ruined. I felt really bad for him and tried to help salvage anything we could... I always try my best to see the good in times of adversity and yesterday I saw the water in our basement as a renewal ~ A cleansing flood!. I have been struggling for a long time with feeling overrun in our house by "stuff". Periodically we sort through the piles of paper and magazines that collect in our house (which I creatively hide in pretty wicker baskets) or the kids toys that quickly accumulate in each of their rooms or the ever expanding library of homeschooling books and supplies or the baskets of clothes that never get put away, just to name a few things. But these times of cleaning out and organization never seem to last ~ After my first year of homeschooling and adding a new baby to the mix (who has his own room full of his own "stuff"), I have decided that this summer my mission is Organization! I feel a lot of pressure (all self-imposed, of course!) that if I don't get our house to a better level of organization NOW, then come this fall I will be in BIG trouble! Anyway, despite having a very tough & very WET day yesterday ~ Things are looking up for me personally regarding my Mission of Organization! We have three huge garbage bags full of stuff to go out & I am planning on adding a few to that before Tuesday night (garbage night). Wish me luck & if any of you out there have any good comments on how you organize things & save time with household chores (like do you use a clothes hamper in each person's room or a collective group in your laundry room or some other central location?) in your home, please share! It would be greatly appreciated! Also, as far as the basement goes, the waterproofing is guaranteed for the life of the structure & the pump for 20 years ~ so we have a guy coming out on Tuesday to check it all out & remedy the situation...
2 comments:
Sorry about the basement. I am glad that you are taking this situation and making the best out of it! : ) I knew you would.
Good luck with the clean up..
My parents live nearby you and had their share of water the other day too.It seems it came down so fast they had some driveway and vechicle damage.And on a funny note (that could of turned out bad)One of the dogs was outside on a chain and the water was up to his neck! So my mom panicked when she could not find her beloved "rags" (her Shitzu)finally my nephew found him and had to pluck him from a raging current in the driveway!!! He was unharmed..Thank God
Oh my goodness, Mary! Glad the doggie is okay! I hear there's another heavy rainfall on its way later today - good thing the basement guy is here as we speak! :)
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