What Are You Doing Right Now
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Been bailing water. That sucked. But better than last major flood because I wasn't here and the roommates didn't know what to do.
Does it flood there that often?
Couple times a year. The interior atrium design of our house puts us at severe risk. We need to make some design changes.
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@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Yikes! that happened to me a few months ago. I quick ran to the hardware store and bought another submersible sump pump.
Nowhere to send the sump water... it's the sump that was flooded.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Yikes! that happened to me a few months ago. I quick ran to the hardware store and bought another submersible sump pump.
Nowhere to send the sump water... it's the sump that was flooded.
Get a bigger pump?
Or Raise the floor a few inches, etc?
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Yikes! that happened to me a few months ago. I quick ran to the hardware store and bought another submersible sump pump.
Nowhere to send the sump water... it's the sump that was flooded.
Get a bigger pump?
Or Raise the floor a few inches, etc?
A bigger capacity pump would push the water out to the sewer faster, but this might just compound the street flooding that may be coming through his front door already.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Yikes! that happened to me a few months ago. I quick ran to the hardware store and bought another submersible sump pump.
Nowhere to send the sump water... it's the sump that was flooded.
Get a bigger pump?
Or Raise the floor a few inches, etc?
A bigger capacity pump would push the water out to the sewer faster, but this might just compound the street flooding that may be coming through his front door already.
Nope, there is nowhere to push it. The drain being blocked from the flooding was the issue. Pressure on the water was not a problem. A place for it to go is the problem.
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Yikes! that happened to me a few months ago. I quick ran to the hardware store and bought another submersible sump pump.
Nowhere to send the sump water... it's the sump that was flooded.
Get a bigger pump?
Or Raise the floor a few inches, etc?
Raising the floor would buy us time, but the water rose at over an inch a minute. So it would not buy us much.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Yikes! that happened to me a few months ago. I quick ran to the hardware store and bought another submersible sump pump.
Nowhere to send the sump water... it's the sump that was flooded.
Get a bigger pump?
Or Raise the floor a few inches, etc?
Raising the floor would buy us time, but the water rose at over an inch a minute. So it would not buy us much.
Yikes.
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Yikes! that happened to me a few months ago. I quick ran to the hardware store and bought another submersible sump pump.
Nowhere to send the sump water... it's the sump that was flooded.
Get a bigger pump?
Or Raise the floor a few inches, etc?
Raising the floor would buy us time, but the water rose at over an inch a minute. So it would not buy us much.
Yikes.
Yeah... SO fast. Once I saw it rising there wasn't much to be done but to jump into it.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Yikes! that happened to me a few months ago. I quick ran to the hardware store and bought another submersible sump pump.
Nowhere to send the sump water... it's the sump that was flooded.
Get a bigger pump?
Or Raise the floor a few inches, etc?
Raising the floor would buy us time, but the water rose at over an inch a minute. So it would not buy us much.
Yikes.
Yeah... SO fast. Once I saw it rising there wasn't much to be done but to jump into it.
Is it done rising now, or are you bailing with one hand while testing out the waterproofing on your iPhone 7 with the other?
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Yikes! that happened to me a few months ago. I quick ran to the hardware store and bought another submersible sump pump.
Nowhere to send the sump water... it's the sump that was flooded.
Get a bigger pump?
Or Raise the floor a few inches, etc?
Raising the floor would buy us time, but the water rose at over an inch a minute. So it would not buy us much.
Yikes.
Yeah... SO fast. Once I saw it rising there wasn't much to be done but to jump into it.
Is it done rising now, or are you bailing with one hand while testing out the waterproofing on your iPhone 7 with the other?
Rain stopped, it is going down.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Yikes! that happened to me a few months ago. I quick ran to the hardware store and bought another submersible sump pump.
Nowhere to send the sump water... it's the sump that was flooded.
Get a bigger pump?
Or Raise the floor a few inches, etc?
Raising the floor would buy us time, but the water rose at over an inch a minute. So it would not buy us much.
Yikes.
Yeah... SO fast. Once I saw it rising there wasn't much to be done but to jump into it.
Is it done rising now, or are you bailing with one hand while testing out the waterproofing on your iPhone 7 with the other?
Rain stopped, it is going down.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Yikes! that happened to me a few months ago. I quick ran to the hardware store and bought another submersible sump pump.
Nowhere to send the sump water... it's the sump that was flooded.
Get a bigger pump?
Or Raise the floor a few inches, etc?
Raising the floor would buy us time, but the water rose at over an inch a minute. So it would not buy us much.
Yikes.
Yeah... SO fast. Once I saw it rising there wasn't much to be done but to jump into it.
Is it done rising now, or are you bailing with one hand while testing out the waterproofing on your iPhone 7 with the other?
Rain stopped, it is going down.
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I just realized that I am still totally soaked from the rain storm. Like head to toe.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I just realized that I am still totally soaked from the rain storm. Like head to toe.
That's a lotta water.
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Yeah, it was crazy being out there in the deluge. Some of the heaviest rain I've ever had. I was blind from the amount of water in my eyes. WIth the six inches of water on the ground it was a bit like swimming!
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Chilling, trying to finish out the work day without issue, and then go home with my girl.
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So busy, being in Austin all week really gets you behind the eight ball.
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Getting my booze and snacks ready for an "apocalypse" party tomorrow night.
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Doing the second "clearing out of the water" in the atrium. Roommate is here doing it this time. She looks like Mary Poppins out there.
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Flood warnings just went off. Oh boy, we've NOT been under flood warning until NOW? Seriously? This is going to get bad.
