Who'll stop the rain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIPan-rEQJA
As you can see we've had a drop or two of rain. Unfortunately whilst I was away in Long Island there was a huge storm leaving Helen & Kitty to deal with an inundation of the basement which tripped out half the electrics and put the air conditioning a/c and hot water out of action. It took a week to get an engineer in to fix the a/c, but as he didn't bother to sort out the hot water I had to do it or face more time with cold showers, brrrrr. Helen was lucky to be away at a conference so she had the power of hot water and cool air after suffering with us for a couple of days, I also had some respite at work but poor Kitty suffered all week.
Then, a week after the last inundation and a day after restoring the home comforts we had a ten minute downpour which went straight through the saturated soil, taking enough soil to help block the drain, built up a three foot reservoir behind the basement door and started pouring around the door jamb. Luckily we heard the water pouring through and Helen womanned the brush in the basement sweeping water into the sumps and I unblocked the drain standing thigh deep in murky water. The fuze box shorted again but the water didn't get to the a/c or boiler this time.
You can see the waterlogged back yard but what you can't see is the six foot hole made by the streaming water washing soil through the stairwell wall into the drain. I filled the hole with rocks topped of with soil and under instruction from the landlord blocked the drains into the stairwell with test plugs. So far so well ...
Kitty and I have spent most of our time hunting for hidden biscuits, watching wildlife and viewing classic films. This weekend we're hoping to go to Alexandria, mountain biking and off to a concert.
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