This is a way late reply, but I just wanted to say how sorry I was for you. I have had to deal with flooded basements many times over the past few summers, and I know how hard, frustrating, sad, annoying, etc. the whole situation can be. It is the ultimate feeling of helplessness, knowing that you cannot do much to stop the incoming water. Hope everything turned out okay, and that you are nice, dry, clean, and sweet smelling (you and the basement) again.

The photo of the basement makes me want to cry! I am SO sorry, what a tee total bummer.

Yowza... Hang in there!

I love Sparkle Hayter's books. :)

Sandy! I'm on vacation but we saw the news and they showed the flooding in Peabody and I IMMEDIATELY thought of you! I'm so sorry! My husband was shocked at the pictures of Peabody. I hope the worst is over for you. L, C

Oh no! Oh, that's horrible...I have to look away.

Um...at least you have a lot of handknits to keep you warm?

Fuckin' A. Definitely Fuckin' A. Good, warm, dry thoughts to you.

I thought this would happen. Ouch.

No wool was harmed, I hope??

Oh, youpoor dear. A flooded basement is the pits. My husband would be swearing, swearing and swearing. Best wishes surviving the floods.

Doesn't this weather suck!!! We have the opposite problem at our house - a leaking roof. And this is a roof we had replaced 2 years ago. Don't get me started!!

Anyway, I can relate - to the sogginess and the miserable husband. This rain better stop soon - I'm starting to feel moldy.

That definitely puts the "ug" in ugly! I'll keep hoping for the rain to stop for you.

I can't even tell you how upset I am about your basement.
Do you have a shopvac? One of those wet/dry vacuums? I've pulled a lot of water out of our basement really quickly with one of those.
Should I bring you mine?

Bet you wish you saved that swear for this post.That's OK, you can say it two times in a row,
Li

My two year old says.. look mess that floor is wet.. it has water.. see even he gets it!!
OI! I am glad to live on a hill..
But Have been through this myself.. not fun!!

Gee, that basement picture sure looks familiar.

*sigh*

This weather we're having is getting old real fast. Sorry to hear about you basement.

Surely, a hotel room for a night or two would be entirely justified? Hot showers, warm bed, room service to return to after bailing. You wouldn't want to cap off your festival experience with the flu from stress and cold.

At least your sewers haven't backed up. Yet.

Oh!, sorry about the flooded basement.
Love Sparkle Hayter's Robin Hudson series it is darker, and more adult than Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum books. Great books and just as funny if not funnier.
1)What's A Girl Gotta Do, 2)Nice Girls Finish Last, 3)Revenge Of The Cootie Girls, 4)The Last Manly Man, 5)Chelsea Girl Murders.

yuck ,get out the wet vac and head for sandy's.

Great job with the Good Bad and Ugly. Your ugly really sucks, though. So sorry! Want me and Dale to come with buckets and mops? We would, ya know.
And I meant to say, too, Sandy, you are SO hot.

Sandy! Your basement! You poor thing. I'm so glad you had a good day on Saturday because really - you need all the strength you can get! ;)

!!!
I hope the rain stops soon and everything dries out quickly!

So nice to meet you the other day!! We're having some pretty erious flooding here too, I'm putting a few pictures up soon. No heat/hot water for me either. Our basement is under five feet of water.

Hope your basement is emptying out. I can't beleive all this rain. My road is washed out in two spots. The driving was a little nerve wracking yesterday. I was glad to get off the turnpike and on to the sideroads. M&M's is a good idea for trips like that.

Oh yikes! Water in the basement is just no fun. I hope it dries up soon and you manage to have a Happy Mother's Day despite it all.

Deb was there? Damn.
Great to see you if only at the end. I'm going to remind you about the Tuesday thing. Really.

Hey there! I'm bummed I didn't get to talk to you yesterday! Everyone was kind of hunkered down under their rain gear, so I think I missed more people than I'm aware of.

I nearly passed out when I scrolled down and saw the picture of your basement. It's one of my big fears of home ownership. I hope the weather clears up soon and you can get things dried out soon. What a huge mess. More M&Ms might be in order.

I posted a sky for you. I hope you will view it in the spirit of "that's what my sky will look like soon" instead of thinking I'm trying to rub it in.
:-)
Hope you're dry soon!

I feel your pain ... we have water dripping in through the roof and coming up through the basement ... we're going to turn into an ark and float away before long.

FIngers crossed that the Weather moves through and that the stuff in your basement can be salvaged.

Woohoo, bailing party at Sandy's. Grab your buckets and let's head up! Last one there gets to start the siphon going.
It was so great to finally meet you in person. I haven't laughed so much in a long time.

Ugh. I thought of you all trudging around in the rain and the mud yesterday, and I tried to convince myself you were all having a miserable time without me. (Didn't work. I still wished I was there!)
Our (old) basement flooded a few years back--it was a total nightmare. Here's hoping for dry weather SOON!

Damn, it might be worth it to join the local gym, just for a shower.
Or maybe water warmed on the stove for a sponge bath? (Maybe, if you do it just right, hubby will be less miserable? winkwinknudgenudge)
SO sorry about the basement. 'Round here, if you walk outside your skin crackles and falls off. I put the outside thermometer in the sun and it topped out at just over 120. It's hooooooooooooooooooooooot.

In the "good" department, it was wonderful to see you again! (And wherever did you get that marvelous sweater :-)

Sorry to hear/see the basement. I've been there and it's not fun. I am sending you "dry" vibes.

I did not recognize you either. I'm glad I got to meet you. I hope the flood goes away soon. Happy Mom's Day. I hope it gets better.

I'm so sorry! Happy Mother's day anyway!

Oh, crap! What a way to end the day!

I hope you guys dry out SOON!

Oh, Sandy - I hope your basement is okay!!!

If it makes you feel any better, our basement isn't flooded (this time), but we live in NH (right in the Merrimack Valley, where it's worst, of course) in a 150+ year old house & my parent's ceiling started leaking this morning.

AND it's supposed to stop by...umm....Wednesday! :)

But atleast since you can't go outside and work, it means you're stuck in, where you can KNIT!!! :) :) :)

It was great to meet you yesterday. If it makes you feel better, we are in the same boat (ha ha!) with flooded basement, 2 pumps running (a 3rd on its way from my dryer brother's house on the S. shore) and a stressed to the max husband. Here's to dryer times.

oh boy. i'm sorry about the soggy basement. ugh.

What a bummer end to a fun day! I am sorry that I missed out on seeing you guys, but I have a difficult time driving in rainstorms (car accident). Maybe this summer before the Boston KOAC we can all get together? And of course that sweet little bunny face is adorable! It is so hard to resist them when they are that young.

Hope you can get that basement dry soon. RI will still getting rain for 2 more days after today... YUCK!

=:8

Now, aren't you even gladder that you came and spent the day with MEMEMEMEMEMEME! to recharge your soggy batteries before having to face this....I'm not going to use your euphemism "fudgin'" -- I'm going to come right out and say FUCKIN' -- situation? Oy vey, there is very little worse than a flooded basement. Poor you. We will forgive you if you reek, and still love you anyway. I hope the husband does not blow a fuse. :)

It was really great meeting you- thanks for the mention...yes, I'm blogless. It was fun despite all the wet and the lake sized puddles. I finally left when I realized I couldn't feel some of the toes on my very soaked feet. Glad I brought dry socks and shoes for the ride home.

Oh, my God, I'm so sorry your basement got flooded and all the floatage including your Bissell! Hope this wet sponge of a sky moves elsewhere to share it's moisture. I think we've had enough and a blue sky would be very welcome about now!

ohhhh, that SUCKS! I'm sorry. I hope it stops raining and that the basement stuff can be salvaged.