j_harvey wrote:Hey John. Did you guys have any problem selling your old place with a leaky basement? I assume you had to check YES on the disclosure statement regarding water? What about your new place? Did they disclose that the basement leaked?

Who are you? The leaky basement police?

Damn, hadn't been watching the news so I didn't realized things were so fucked up. All I know is that I waited for the 147 to get home tonight and after 4 packed buses went by between 5:00 - 6:00, I finally walked up to the next stop where a CTA guy was standing around. I asked him what was going on and he said 'the expressways are flooded' and that the stoplight was out at Balbo. I went to a bar, gulped down a martini and caught a train up to Howard.

I'm sorry to hear about the water damage... hope it's minimal!

Just finished the cleanup. This is my third flood in 9 years, so nothing of real value was damaged. When we built our practice space, we caulked the shit out of it. So at least that was high and dry. Only a couple guitar cases were a little wet. Most of the water was stopped by the dirty laundry piled up near the floor drain. The thing that pisses me off is we re-routed our downspout to the alley five years ago when we had a similar downpour that backup up our catch basin. The only upside is we finally met our new neighbors.

I was at work in a windowless room. I missed it.

I missed the rain, but saw the storm. I was up in Rosemont, taking a friend to O'Hare. The sky got dark, and the lightning got awesome, with strike after strike, maybe something on the order of a huge visible ground-to-cloud lightning bolt every one or two seconds. It was pretty damn spectacular. Looked like the electrical side of it was much more active north of the city. But we got damn near zero rain. It wasn't until I got back into the city that traffic was fucked up and things were wet.

I live on the second floor.

When I lived in Virginia, the house we lived in had a basement with a crack in the foundation or some such, so every time it rained really hard, the basement took on water. Well, if the gutters were recently cleaned, we generally didn't have trouble, but if the gutters were at all clogged, the basement would take on water. There was a room that had permanent mold along the baseboards. A dehumidifier active 24-7 would kill the mold, but if the dehumidifier was turned off, within a day or two, fuzz along the baseboards.

We put our amps up on milk crates, and pretty much it was just the kick drum that we had to worry about at that point. Luckily we never took on *that* much water, and so the milk crates never even came into play. But better safe than sorry and whatnot.

Well-wishing to all those who took on water. Hopefully the damage is as minimal as can be. And I don't know if this is how it works, but maybe throw a dehumidifier in there ASAP to prevent mold from breaking out in the first place. From everything I read when I was in that old house, once mold sets in, it's more or less there for good.

Also, just a general basement flood question... when a basement floods, is that because the sump pump is broken or underpowered or something? I know if the power is out, the sump pump isn't gonna work, and that fucks people real bad during electrical storms with power outages. But under other circumstances, even with a crazy-ass downpour like today, would a properly-functioning sump pump not be able to keep up? Or are there just storms that are unmanageable?

Woah, what's going on? Is it raining everywhere in the world as bad as it is in the UK? My cousin had to leave his house in Sheffield because his basement flooded so badly it tripped all the power and the water hadn't stopped rising when he left. The world's gone mad.

I was in Gower in South Wales last weekend. It was windy and the clouds surrounding the bay were black and foreboding. I was hoping that it would dissipate on teh drive back - I hate motorway driving in downpours. So we set off and within minutes it's spitting, no big deal, it was around 6pm so it was going to be light for at least 3 hours.

As we got to Port Talbot, industrial armageddon, home of the largest steelworks in Europe, the rain really started coming down hard but it made the surrounding area look kind of cool.

Once we got on to the M50 which take you through Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Caerphilly, the sky went black. Like, really dark and doomy.

I was behind a truck and by now all the traffic was crawling because the rain was so hard, the wipers weren't of much use and the truck all of a sudden put his hazards on. I slowed down even more and saw all this ..water..everywhere and all I could think was " my car can not withstand this kind of shit, it's a rusty old banger with a leaky sunroof for god's sake! "

Every slip road was reduced to one lane just because the inner lanes were flooded. Once we got to the Malverns the rain eased off, sort of. We got back to mine at about 10.10pm.

I tell you..it was a hairy drive and if we'd left any later than 6pm, I don't think we'd have managed to get back!

Thankfully, Birmingham isn't too flooded but Worcester and Pershore just up the road are hit pretty bad with 2 rivers about to burst their banks.

I really feel for anyone who has been flooded, I hope you can get back to normal asap afterwards.

john, where did you move?

i know two close friends who took on a lot of water in chicago.

i am pleased to announce that i didn't get a drop here in my new place. i have karma owed to me after how much water i got in my old place.

AlBStern wrote:

j_harvey wrote:Hey John. Did you guys have any problem selling your old place with a leaky basement? I assume you had to check YES on the disclosure statement regarding water? What about your new place? Did they disclose that the basement leaked?

Who are you? The leaky basement police?

Yes...yes I am.

BadComrade wrote:Did you get zapped when you guys were playing down there or something?

Only by the guilt of practicing while John and Jennifer ate dinner and played video games above us. We had no shame in those years...none.

We only got, maybe, a few drops of rain in Park Ridge. Also, next to nothing by where I work, in Rolling Meadows.

I was amazed when I left work and heard about the flooding. At 1st I thought they were talking about the flooding rain we had about, I think, 10 years ago, like this day was the anniversary of it or something.