Quote Originally Posted by hollohas View Post
Started raining at my place around 3:30p yesterday. We just hit 4".

My sump has been bone dry for ten years. I wasn't convinced that it would even work. I went down to check it and found water covering it. Uh oh.

I went to get a mallet, because nothing fixes things better than a good 'ol smack from a hammer. As I walked back up to the sump and reached to grab the pump to dish out some punishment, it switched on. Thank goodness.

Our 16 year old, long dry sump pump is running every 5 minutes now.

Our neighborhood park, that also serves as a retention pound, is just about full. It's a full on lake. Never seen more than a puddle in it. It's 3 or 4ft deep now and doing its job. Whatever civil engineer that designed the drainage in our neighborhood deserves a beer.
We don't even have a sump pump here. Never ever had a drop of moisture in the basement.

That said, your story should have compelled me to at least check our (unfinished) basement. I hadn't been down there since before the rain started.

Fortunately, most everything is up on shelving. Anything that was on the floor is wet. Very wet. One pair of vintage speakers that were on a large piece of carpet, some rugs, a large piece of carpet and some vintage stereo and speaker boxes (sad face). I have one quite rare Yamaha 3020 receiver that I had the original inner, outer, and shipping box for. All wet. F*K

It could have been worse. I have 20+ pairs of vintage JBL's down there. Water wicked up around the perimeter wall on 2 sides and a bit through some minor floor cracks.

I've got a box fan and space heater going and put the HVAC fan on full.

It must have all come the last 2 days here because the wife went down to wash clothes Wed night and didn't notice anything. The rug in front of the W/D was really soaked.