Pumps, Pails, and Prayers

The pump continues to function and has been emptying every 24 seconds this afternoon. The lower section of our basement (under the kitchen extension) sits 8 inches below the main foundation - and was flooded with 6 inches of water.

Tracy and I just spent the last 90 minutes using pails and hiking the water out thru bilco doors to the backyard. Got the waterlevel down 2 or 3 inches. We need to keep it from flowing up into the main area (where the furnace is...).


The creek across the road is slowly pulling back into its banks. Now we just need the resulting water table to drain off - and out of our basement. I've been up since 3am, but doubt I'll sleep much tonight.

As long as we can keep up with it, absolutely no complaints here. Many of our neighbors were not so fortunate.