Flooding in the Basement

After I finished exercising, I heard some water draining in the furnace room.  So I opened the door and found a couple of inches of water.  I quickly opened up the cold storage room and found more water.  Water was coming out of the sump pump bucket area.  Luckily Matt was home so he was able to help me.  Chase was home sick but he still came and helped.  We moved things quickly out of the cold storage room, furnace room and the toy room into Chase's room.  Then I called around to our friends asking if they had a shop vac we could use.  Cami brought one over and Michael came over too and helped us.  Matt ran to the local hardware store and bought us a new sump pump.  It looks like the sump pump died so no water was being pumped out.  At least it was just "water melt" water and now sewer water.  

The shop vacs got the bulk of the water but it just wasn't strong enough to get it out of the carpet.  So I called mom and asked if we could borrow their Rug Doctor.  Dad met me in Riverdale with the Rug Doctor.  I brought it straight home.  Matt stayed up until 1:00am sucking the water out of the carpet and then the pad.  I had to work the next day so I went to bed.  I was going to call in sick but then I got a text saying they were super busy and short nurses so I couldn't do that to them.  When I went to work the next day I told them my situation and they were great to figure out a way to let me go home later in the afternoon.  Matt pulled up the carpet the next day and borrowed fans.  We kept the fans going for a couple of weeks.  Keven was out of town so we handled everything.  When he came home, he was very grateful that everything turned out well.  We really lucked out because the flood was uneven and there was a low spot in the middle of the room. Luckily the water drained to the middle and did not ruin the walls and baseboards.

To top it all off, Chase was home sick with the flu.  Then Saturday morning, Tanner woke up crying and pulling at his ear.  Matt took him into the ER and had the doctor take a look.  Sure enough, Tanner had an ear infection.  So poor Matt had two sick kids and was dealing with a flooded basement.  He's such a great guy!!

Matt sent me this picture when I was at work.  I was so happy when I was able to get out of work early and come home to my family.  I love the people I work with because they have my back.