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How are nesties doing with this rain?
While driving home from Van Dorn metro DH drove us in the minivan through some seroiusly high water on Edsall Road in NoVA - good grief as I think about it I'm pretty sure we probably shouldn't have driven through it. We needed to get to DDs' preschool on time and dammit we did! The creek behind my house is really high, but we're high enough up it won't affect us.
Weirdly, the earthquake shook our chimney loose a little and either the flashing or something came loose and some rain is getting in and our fireplaces look like they're weeping. Not badly, just enough water to put some towels on the floor.
How are you all holding up?
Wife, Musician, Fed, WW-er, and Mom of three little kids - not necessarily in that order.
Re: How are nesties doing with this rain?
Mixing Bowl/495 - CLOSED
Huntington area in Alexandria, evacuated, Mount Vernon is next.
Good grief!!!
be careful girls, this is scary! very glad we are downtown and on the 5th floor!
thankfully, my bff got back to centreville from vienna (long, sucky ride to 66 but was ok once she got to 66). another friend in chantilly went back to her office and i think may be spending the night.
I'm soooooo over the rain! (and so are our dogs!)
Everything is good over here. We have a tree that grew sideways in our front yard, and it seems to be leaning even more than before... so hopefully it'll hold on, but i'm not counting on it. Luckily, if it does fall, I think it'll miss power lines!
We make the rockin' world go 'round.
We have water coming in through our basement walls. Other than that, we're ok. We live right next to a creek and the water level is crazy. There was a partial bridge collapse over the creek today.
Tonight is basement flooding part 2. It's not bad yet. But we didn't get the pool until 1 am last night. Joy.
It could be worse. My coworker lives on a creek. She was describing the water and then sent me some after pictures. Nothing is left of her yard but her house is amazingly dry. Then she sent me a "before" picture. Her lot was covered in waist high water. Million + home. I would cry.
Whoa!
We have water coming through our basement walls too. One word: seepage.
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*knocks on wood frantically*
our basement is still dry and our sump pump is running constantly, as it has for 5 days now. I told DH that it's probably crying in exhaustion, but it's hanging in there!
but Warner and I definitely have cabin fever! I am being VERY optimistic for some dry weather this weekend...it can't keep raining forever, right??!!
We had our first experience with minor flooding in our basement tonight, which sucked! Miraculously, we were able to get a wet dry vac at Home Depot, which made clean up a lot easier. It got a little of the carpet, so we'll have to see how that does when it's dry. I would hate to have to rip it up.
Does anyone know if/how this can affect the foundation? The water definitely seeped through and I'm a little worried.
We've had some "seepage" too (see my sump pump question below!) - our brand new wet vac should be arriving from Amazon today...
I expected to come home to more water in the basement last night, but it was totally dry. It's wet again this morning. I think we've realized that living not too far from the river in Old Town means that we only get high ground water that seeps in during high tide!
We had water in the basement yesterday morning.
I feel so tired wit this weather.
I havent seen any roads closed so far but DH said Beach is closed off and on
We're dry so far (knock on wood).
Usually our sump pump is super loud when it kicks in - you can hear it from our bedroom two floors away. I'm kind of worried that I haven't heard it yet. How can it not be running through all of this? Is it not working, or has something in the neighborhood changed to help drainage so that the sump pump doesn't need to work?
I work in this area http://www.restonian.org/ and it took me an hour and 10 minutes to get home last night. (I live/ work 7 miles apart.) Thankfully *knocks on wood** nothing at our house is leaking.
Good luck to all with leaky roofs and seepage!
DH heard a drip in the laundry room last night where the walls do get a little damp when it rains so we probably have a little water there. But overall we feel very lucky.
Last night it took me 2.5 hours to go from work (exit 51 Gallows Rd) to home (Mont Village Rd off 270). Thank goodness I had my audiobook or I would have gone nuts and also that DH had left early and could pick up the kids on time since I was clearly not making it.
We're dry so far, but that helps when you don't have a basement.
QueSrah- That would worry me about the sump pump. Have your neighbors done anything landscaping wise that might affect how water drains around your yard?
Our basement is still dry somehow. DH thinks one wall might be getting a little damp, but that's it.
We live about 100 feet from an underground creek, so I'm amazed we're dry.
We do have a crazy amount of standing water in our back yard against the house, which is on the side where there is slab and no basement (we have a split level). DH has hooked up a pump since our french drain doesn't seem to be working. I'm a little worried about the foundation with the standing water.
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