SHOWER DAY
...And I am not talking about my baby shower, which is in a few hours.
Here in the Northeast, it has not stopped raining in over eight days. I feel odd complaining about this, because of all the recent tragedies here in the US and abroad with hurricanes, earthquakes, etc.
But man, it is depressing.
Right after we moved into our new home, almost a year ago (!!!), we had a few incidents of flooding in our basement. Once we called the builders, however, they immediately installed a sump-pump for us at no charge to alleviate the problem. And alleviate, it did.
Until last night.
I have been checking the basement all week, amazed that there hasn't been any flooding due to the fact that it has been raining here since October 6th. Last night, before we went to bed, we opened the basement door and peeked down the stairs. No water. Yay!
However, we lost power repeatedly overnight, and we could hear the rain coming down in buckets overnight. So loud and so heavy, in fact, that Anthony told me if he is lucky MAYBE he slept for two hours. So, this morning I got up and I just had to check again. And the basement is FLOODED, with about 3 inches of water.
UGH!
The news here says our area got almost six inches of rain OVERNIGHT, so I am trying to look on the bright side and say that no matter what, nothing was going to prevent this. When it rains for ten days straight and then dumps six more inches of rain in one night, there is going to be nowhere for all this water to go. It is just terribly inconvenient, you know?
My poor, sleepy husband is down there right now with the wet dry vac. I offered to help, but being almost 8 1/2 months pregnant he told me he didn't need my assistance. I guess we won't be putting any baby shower gifts down in the basement this afternoon!
We also realized that this means we'll probably never be able to do a finished room in our basement, which had been a big part of our plans when building this house. That is too bad. At the same time, it would suck to sink money into finishing a room down there, complete with wall-to-wall carpeting, sofas and a pool table, only to have it repeatedly flooded and risk ruining everything.
Oh well. If that is the worst of our problems, life ain't so bad, right?
It is still showering outside. Now, I am going to go take a shower to get ready for my shower!