hap
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 | | 09/14/2008 5:25 PM |
| it has rained here for 3 days. GRR was almost completly flooded and half the backyard has standing water plus pond is over flowing . all the cedar chips were floating and the walkways flooded over. house,gararage and outbuildings remained dry inside thankfully.
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N.S. Rob
Valparaiso, Indiana
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| | 09/14/2008 5:45 PM |
| | Sorry to here that Hap. We got 9 inches today alone. Luckily my railroad survived, but I did get a little water in the basement. | | | |
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hap
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| | 09/14/2008 5:55 PM |
| | my sump pump in crawl space is turning on about every 5 minutes now. footing drain tubes emty into it so am dry down there. | |
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| | 09/14/2008 8:36 PM |
| Harold,
You have my utmost sympathy. We've been there, done that last Friday. At least you have electricity for the sump pump to run on.
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| | 09/15/2008 6:21 AM |
| | Sorry to send Ike on to you, but we'd had enough of him here. | |
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vsmith
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| | 09/15/2008 9:12 AM |
| | Well on the plus side, now you know where you need to add drainage so it wont happen next time | |
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