Phooey

Thanks to a major t-storm last night, we lost power for 2 or so hours. No power means our sump pump doesn't work. This little sump pump works all the time, have a high water table here and we live in and area where there is nothing but clay dirt so little to no drainage. Within 30 minutes the laundry, furnace room, and storage room was flooded to about 2 inches (laundry is where the sump pump is and is the lowest area in the basement). By the time the power came on, we had 8 inches of water in the laundry room. We lost a lot of things. Luckily the washer and dryer work, so far. *knock on wood*

I've spent all day cleaning out the big room. All of our things are now upstairs or in the trash outside or in the garage for a yard sale. Major decluttering going on here. Our big room is like a family room, has a fireplace and a bar built in and the last owners left an antique piano which is probably not worth much since it wasn't taken care of before we bought the house. I was using this room as a school room (lost a lot of my papers). All of the area rugs are gone. Most things that were made of wood is gone because of the mold from just being in the basement at all; add more moisture and the mold took over. Still have the other half of the basement to go through. Called my furnace-a/c company to have them come and do the yearly service on the a/c and check the furnace for water damage.

After we get the basement dried out I have several things we HAVE to do.
- Buy a battery backup for the sump pump.
- Caulk the windows and put in plastic covers over the outside of the windows
- Call the basement people to come back out and reseal the house (thank goodness for lifetime warranty).
- Save up for a perimeter drain to be put in around the house and garage (oh ya, it leaked too).

I'm just thankful that a tree didn't land on the house or garage or we weren't hurt. God is good.

Speaking of good. A couple members of our church was to help us repair our roof. The job was to tricky to do so one of them contacted a roofer. He just left and told me the bill had already been paid in full. My eyes are leaking as I write this. What a timely blessing! God is the GREATEST!!!!!