No, not rain, just water. I was awakened at 3:00 am by my mother-in-law, who is staying with us this week. Our basement carpets were soaked with water. The source appears to be my neighbor, who just irrigated for the first time in many years. The water appears to be going underground and then percolating through the foundation. Luckily, we have floor ducts in the basement and they took much of the water; I've drained a 16-gallon wet vac 20 times so far and am taking a brief break. I was fortunate that a contractor friend had left the vac at my house after doing some work on our bathroom.
It's a sad coincidence that the major flood we had in our last home was three years ago exactly. It was the weekend of the Fourth, and July 2 or 3, as I recall.
Also, about two years ago when my in-laws came to visit, the A/C went out and a heat wave struck just as they arrived, so I conclude that both they and the Fourth are bad luck. Having both together is just like playing ring around the rosies with a black cat under a ladder on Friday the 13th.
Sigh. Back to work.
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Oh, how awful! I'm sorry. That's such a bummer.
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