So my house is flooded right now.

Did a pipe break?

My basement gets flooded whenever heavy, long lasting rain occurs. Going up and down the steps with a heavy bucket gets tiring.

A few years ago a flash flood happened in our neighborhood. After the waters subsided and we were allowed back in, we went to the house and saw the water line on our doorstep, only a few centimeters from actually getting inside. We were one of the few lucky ones. The garage on the other hand.... that was a mess lol

It's happened to me twice!

1. Came home after shopping with my mom all day, opened the front door, and heard the loudest "whoosh" I've ever heard in my life. My Pomeranian came running out barking and soaking wet. Turns out a pipe under our kitchen sink busted because our city was increasing the water pressure as a test and flooded half of our house. I think ripping up the carpets and moving everything out to get the floors fixed was the worst part. Of the three bedrooms, only mine got wet though. -__-
2. I was sleeping in my grandparents' guest house. I was really sick at the time, so I had taken a bunch of Nyquil. I remembered hearing a pop in the middle of the night but I thought it was hallucinations from the medicine. Until I stepped out of the bed... into ankle deep water. Luckily was not involved in the cleanup for that one.

My hometown and basically the whole region is currently experiencing the biggest flood in the last 100 years.

Ur pc is water proof :P ?

Are you Patrick?

I once had my washer cause a "flood" in my apartment. I was worried that some of the water would drip down on the people living a floor under me because we aren't supposed to own washers in my apartment, but use the public ones they have. Luckily no water dripped on those people living under me.

Oh man, that's terrible.

I've never had that happen to me, thankfully.

never happened here

That reminds me...

A long time ago when I was pretty young and I was alone at my dad's place and playing Starcraft in my room (as always), I had to go to the bathroom and when I stepped in the hallway I noticed that it was flooding. And then somebody was ringing the doorbell and then these random people came in and the idiot janitor starts accusing me of causing the leak. And I had no idea what had caused it, I just called my dad that he needs to come home fast. Then I went to my room and cried. Later it turned out that my dad's makeshift washing machine tube system had failed.

my roof drain was filled with leaves and trashes on that one rainy day....I swear the interior of my house looked like the Niagara Falls that day.

House is flooding. Gets online to type about it. Your priorities ...

Well, I live on the 9th story of an apartment building, so if my house were to flood, I would be very worried. The closest to that was probably when I forgot to close the windows during a heavy rain — much cleaning had to be done > >

Back in 1996, I lived in West Virginia. In Jan. we had a blizzard, dumped like 6 feet of snow in less than 2 days. Then a couple days later, the temps skyrocketed to the low 70s, and all that snow melted... and flooded. The basement house my fam and I were living in at the time flooded, like, completely up to the basement door. The waters rose so far that, even though we were like the 10th house back from the river, the water made it just a few feet shy of our property line (we were on a slight hill). My brother and I watched a 2 story house floating down the river, pretty much still intact.
To make that even more fun, we had a rather severe cold front come in, dropping the temps to 10 below (when it was like 70 the day before), so of course, all that water ended up freezing.
Yeah, no school from like the 4th of January, until the second week of Feb.

Good luck and be safe! Floods always suck. Our basement got flooded a few years back.

My dad had a pretty big comic collection and he lost a few thousand dollars worth of comics. He was really sad, because he had some limited edition prints? I felt bad for him. :(

Ah that sucks! It rains quite a bit where I live, but luckily enough I live on the 8th floor :P

In college we rented a house with a basement, planning to make that a party area and such. We powerwashed, repainted, built a bar... whole nine yards. It starts storming horrendously hours before our first major party (we had bands and such coming to play) and we find out the basement floods. Not damp little pools, 2-3 foot standing water that the sump just can't keep up with. We bucket rushed it, the storm laid off a bit and the bands had to play on top of pallets we scavenged from a nearby worksite. No one got electrocuted, and we turned those pallets into a decent platform afterwards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Central_European_flood
http://dolny-slask.org.pl/entity.action?view=&id=509277&offsetPhoto=320
and some comparision pics
http://dolny-slask.org.pl/703308,foto.html?idEntity=509277
http://dolny-slask.org.pl/608651,foto.html?idEntity=564216

http://dolny-slask.org.pl/844705,foto.html?idEntity=509277
http://dolny-slask.org.pl/666999,foto.html?idEntity=511798

I went on vacation for a month. The day after I left there a heavy storm hit, and the basement got flooded. I come back to mold growing waist-high on the drywall and soggy carpet as well as destroyed electronics..

Maybe rent an Diesel(-Electric) dirty-water pump ?

i think i have been lucky in the regard that when my city flooded in 2007 my house missed the floods while the other half of the street did flood (this wasn't just water it was mixed with sewage) although recently we did have damp because the overflow pipe snapped off and the float valve pipe had bent which meant the tank kept filling up. i would have thought using a hose pipe and creating a vacuum inside would work best because the water would be drawn up into the pipe and out the window.

this also drove the council to get the sewers to be able to handle more water as that is what cased peoples houses to flood as the sewers could not handle the amount of water that was coming down. i remember that the local park looked like a lake with the amount of water that was covering it, as well as the fact that it took a few months for my secondary school to be repaired.

Have had complete flooding (all carpet ruined) twice and my mom also had it happen at her place, always blows. Luckily, I was renting both times and simply moved shortly after each flooding, never lost anything important. My mom and stepdad had a pretty rough time though, I think they have 2 sump pumps and a mini-moat now xP. Condolences to you, it really sucks having all those fans blowing coupled with the constant damp feeling-- quite uncomfortable, to say the least.

My basement is always flooded during rain. And the most scary think about this, is that I don't have a basement.