Home Is Where Your Bed Is
When Water Doesn’t Go Down The Drain
Nearly a month ago, after a serious rainstorm when just over 8" fell within 24 hours, many houses in my community had water come up their basement drains and, for some, their basement toilets, too. Some had a few inches of mostly stormwater that came up but quickly receded. For others, they received feet of sewage.
While we were fortunate that we had some stormwater, it remained for nearly half a week. Once that our plumber did some critical work, only then did the water start to drain. We feel that the heavy volume of stormwater was a primary contributor to the malfunctioning drain, Up until that rainstorm incident, in our 11 years in the house, ANY there wasn’t a single incident of EVER water coming up the basement drain. We were very worried because most of our neighbors’ water already receded or had been pumped.
Harder To Breathe
Very quickly, we could tell that there was something wrong with the air inside our house. We couldn’t go inside without coughing. Between that first morning after to when the plumber started work, whenever we went into our house, my wife and I made sure to wear N95 masks.
To make it worse, we couldn’t run our AC (air conditioning). First, the basement furnace was partially submerged, so there wasn’t a way to safely test it. Also…
