Rain Rain Go Away

The Saturday before Easter I headed off with my friend Sue to Hershey Theatre to see Hair while Brent invited his friend Mark for dinner and music. We all expected to have an enjoyable evening. I arrived home to see the garage door open and a cart in the middle of the garage. Curious. I opened the door into the mud room and saw the kitchen window open and two hoses running through the kitchen. Yikes.

Neighbor Deb had come over earlier to ask for Brent's help. Apparently the runoff water was going from Colonial Road, across their patient parking lot, and right into their office. Brent checked our basement to find it damp before heading over to help Deb. When he came back there was 3 inches of water in the basement. We kept 3 sump pumps and several fans running all night long to get as much water out as possible and start to dry things out.

Thank goodness Kera, Chris and Gwen came over to help us clean up on Sunday. Gwen took all these pictures to capture the moment.

Brent apparently had a cardboard box collection all over the basement floor. Who knew. After this mess Kera threatened Brent with dire consequences if such a thing occurred again!

We accomplished in several hours what it would have taken Brent and I days to finish.

We took everything to the garage and piled it high onto the neighbors cart. Brent and Loren took 900 pounds to the dump!