Adios, Hannah!

Thanks for your parting gift!

Last night, we got rain. We got a lot of rain! Tropical Storm Hannah blew through our area and took her time in departing the East coast. There was one report that the town of Wilbraham received 6 inches of rain from the time the storm began to when it ended.

Frank and decided last night to hang out in the basement and play a few games on the Wii. After awhile, we noticed that there was a little water in some parts of the basement. A little while later, we noticed that there was a lot of water in a lot of areas of the basement! We stopped playing the Wii, and refocused our energy on making sure that everything was off the floors. At midnight we began watching Saturday Night Live. At 12:30AM, I got up and looked down. There was a PUDDLE under my feet, in the middle of the floor! Ye gads! After a few minutes of watching the room become wetter and wetter, I went to bed.

Frank stayed up and began to use the wet/dry vacuum. No use. When I got up this morning, I ran downstairs and took a look. I did not have to go any farther than the basement stairs to see what was in store for us today. The water was standing at the bottom of the stairs and in most of the basement. After hockey this morning, we picked up an extra wet-dry vacuum and went to work on the floors.

The bad news is that the floors were a lot more wet then in these pictures. The good news is that they are more dry. The bad news is that there is still a lot more drying to be done. Wish us luck!


The utility room. Our house has an old coal chute and although it is no longer in use and not accessible from the outside, the rain made its way into the house through it (and many other areas!). Cruddy picture, but Frank is posing with our new best friend-- the wet-dry vacuum!