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Three inches of rain in less than 45 mins and other things.
12 years ago
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The title says it all.
Last Friday morning we had one hell of a thunderstorm roll through the plains of Kansas where I lived.
I was getting ready for work, and at about 540ish am I am hearing this trickling sound.
Now one of the two pet cats I live with was down here, and I thought.
'Great, why are pissing down here and not in your litter.'
So I turn around from where I am sitting in my basement room.
Low and behold, the rain is coming down SO fast, that combined with the debris in the window well.
It actually filled it up to the point that the water was pushing in via the seals on the window it's SELF.
The cat was staring like the wall had come alive.
I panicked. :(
If I didn't I would of made a dam out of old clothing and towels along the edge of the tiled area, I didn't.
I just through a bunch of them up there, then on the floor, then woke mother.
After that it started coming in via the other window.
We then continued this till the storm stopped at about 6:20ish
End result?
About a 5 foot by 8 foot big section of soaked carpet in front of the tiled area, a smaller one foot by 1 and 1/2 foot one on the side and a 2 foot by about 3 to 4 foot one under the other window.
Okay so I get to cleaning it up with a wet dry Vac, then fans.
Then as I am getting ready to go to work, Boom, the power goes out.
Lovely.
That further slows my preparation to get to work.
Also it meant the fans stayed off for however long the power was out.
All in all I got into work about an hour and a half late, which was okay because I called the boss right after I woke mother.
But a couple of the other coworkers were not too happy about my absence..
At least it was the last day of that jackass at work who liked to give me trouble.
So I am out that money, but my day doesn't end there.
Not by a long shot.
It's payday and I had to spend what out of it what I was going to save on things I did not want to buy, but needed.
A new box fan, Window well covers that $20~ bucks a piece because the cheaper ones home depot had were too cracked to work.
Mother says she will repay me for this, I doubt it.
Caulk to reseal the windows.
Then when I get home I spend hours using towels to blot up as much water as I can from the carpeting.
I got tired of listening to the music on my phone, So I go to turn on my main computer.
All I got was silence.
It seems Dracoscale, the name I gave it, decided it was time to have it's power supply fail.
So then it was a mad dash to best buy, the only place open at 8pm, to grab one.
$80+ dollars I did not want to spend getting a replacement that is a slight upgrade.
I then spent the rest of the night both installing that, and further blotting up more water.
Which then was what I did for a little bit on and off today.
In between caulking the windows, and being invited out to see 'after earth' by a friend.
So now my room smells like wet carpet, I have torn off trim/molding to make sure the drywall is okay.
It is as far as I can tell.
And if anything further goes wrong, I am going to have to empty this room, tear up the carpet and the wall and replace them.
But there is no where else in the house for me to sleep.
Last Friday morning we had one hell of a thunderstorm roll through the plains of Kansas where I lived.
I was getting ready for work, and at about 540ish am I am hearing this trickling sound.
Now one of the two pet cats I live with was down here, and I thought.
'Great, why are pissing down here and not in your litter.'
So I turn around from where I am sitting in my basement room.
Low and behold, the rain is coming down SO fast, that combined with the debris in the window well.
It actually filled it up to the point that the water was pushing in via the seals on the window it's SELF.
The cat was staring like the wall had come alive.
I panicked. :(
If I didn't I would of made a dam out of old clothing and towels along the edge of the tiled area, I didn't.
I just through a bunch of them up there, then on the floor, then woke mother.
After that it started coming in via the other window.
We then continued this till the storm stopped at about 6:20ish
End result?
About a 5 foot by 8 foot big section of soaked carpet in front of the tiled area, a smaller one foot by 1 and 1/2 foot one on the side and a 2 foot by about 3 to 4 foot one under the other window.
Okay so I get to cleaning it up with a wet dry Vac, then fans.
Then as I am getting ready to go to work, Boom, the power goes out.
Lovely.
That further slows my preparation to get to work.
Also it meant the fans stayed off for however long the power was out.
All in all I got into work about an hour and a half late, which was okay because I called the boss right after I woke mother.
But a couple of the other coworkers were not too happy about my absence..
At least it was the last day of that jackass at work who liked to give me trouble.
So I am out that money, but my day doesn't end there.
Not by a long shot.
It's payday and I had to spend what out of it what I was going to save on things I did not want to buy, but needed.
A new box fan, Window well covers that $20~ bucks a piece because the cheaper ones home depot had were too cracked to work.
Mother says she will repay me for this, I doubt it.
Caulk to reseal the windows.
Then when I get home I spend hours using towels to blot up as much water as I can from the carpeting.
I got tired of listening to the music on my phone, So I go to turn on my main computer.
All I got was silence.
It seems Dracoscale, the name I gave it, decided it was time to have it's power supply fail.
So then it was a mad dash to best buy, the only place open at 8pm, to grab one.
$80+ dollars I did not want to spend getting a replacement that is a slight upgrade.
I then spent the rest of the night both installing that, and further blotting up more water.
Which then was what I did for a little bit on and off today.
In between caulking the windows, and being invited out to see 'after earth' by a friend.
So now my room smells like wet carpet, I have torn off trim/molding to make sure the drywall is okay.
It is as far as I can tell.
And if anything further goes wrong, I am going to have to empty this room, tear up the carpet and the wall and replace them.
But there is no where else in the house for me to sleep.
