What Are You Doing Right Now
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Looks like the rats have had the fibre. So incoming quote for rat proof cable and some wireless kit to do a bridge
Those dirty rats,... I mean,.. that bites.
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Wow, some intense lightning here. This is one heck of a storm.
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SO much rain we started to flood. I've been standing ankle deep in dirty water trying to keep the house from floating away for the last half hour. I feel disgusting. But the house is intact.
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@scottalanmiller Just ad Pontoons and a couple of boat engines.
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Oh wow,.. that is unreal.
What part of the Dallas area are you in?
Carrollton
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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.
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@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?
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@scottalanmiller Yikes! that happened to me a few months ago. I quick ran to the hardware store and bought another submersible sump pump.
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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.
