That’s how much rain we got yesterday. Plus the 1.44 on Saturday gives us a total of 3.58 inches in two days. For the month of January we have had 4 inches already! Our monthly average is generally 2.56. Of course that’s probably generally snow.

We still have flood warnings in effect. UGH.

Now for the rant. I’m sorry but I think there has been some poor planning. I mean, first off, if we are this close to the creek and it is going to have these problems, they should have given us something to help counteract that. I’m not an engineer or a designer but it just goes to reason that they can build some extra pipes or lengthen pipes or something to help abate the problem. Also this is a sewer problem. The water and sewer people actually said “We can’t do anything, our sewer system in your neighbourhood just can’t handle all the rain. Well 1. This is Ohio and it rains almost as much as the freaking beach here for some reason. 2. My neighbourhood is not old. It is new. My house is 2.5 years old and the neighbourhood is probably at a max, 4 years old. So, you have the latest technology, the best way to chart things, etc etc etc Just why on earth can you not handle it? This is first time it effected us, but this is the second time in something like six months this has happened in our neighbourhood. I’ll buy once every x many of years as a fluke. I mean this warm weather is a fluke for sure. But twice in about six months? No way. And I do know that the day I took all the flood pictures when our street flooded bad and all? We went and looked in the sewer and the drains were full, hence the massive lake of water in the street in front of my house. And it was plenty warm that day so I don’t want to hear that it just wasn’t warm enough for water to evaporate or anything like that. I mean that was still “summer”. (By the way yesterday’s high was 46 so it wasn’t even all that cold. The day before was 60. So you’d think that would have been plenty warm enough to at least help with some evaporation and stuff. Now today currently it is 32 feels like 24. Yay, back to the wind chill. ICK. So the chances of water leaving that way is nill.

I just don’t understand. I mean, you’d think there would be better planning in place and you’d think you would get more of a response then “We can’t do anything oh well… watch your stuff float away in ickyness. And to top it off, our garbage doesn’t pick up anything not in the bin so if we throw stuff on the curb that was ruined, they won’t pick it up. My neighbour says he’s just gonna curb it and call bulk waste and the stuff will sit there until they come, even if it takes three weeks like it usually does. Well if he does it so will I. He’s VP of the association… haha.

We are going to see what we can salvage. Thankfully we got that wet dry vac and was able to get the junk out. And most of my furniture didn’t get hit. I did get the bottom of two bookcases hit as well as the bottom to Sir Megabyte’s easel and the legs to my futon.

I was worried about the bassinet. See I put it in the corner by the stairs hoping it would have less chance of getting crushed by playing children. It is also the literal other side of the basement from my sump pump which is supposed to keep your basement from flooding. However there’s this lip of like two inches so huh? But as it turns out, the water congregated on the other side of the basement by get this. My heater! And the water heater. But apparently it started to slope up a bit at the water heater because the bassinet was on the other side of that. So by the time it got to the basenet it was barely water, just starting to get damp. So we think we can salvage that. We’ll just clean up the legs. The legs had the actual bassinet itself up off the floor probably half an inch? So the legs got hit but not the bassinet itself.

This is frustrating. GRRR. But on the bright side, if worse comes to worse all we are really out is a handful of old clothes that didn’t fit, an area rug, a couple of blankets, and a futon, as well as two bookcases. One of which is one of those cheap 3 shelf white ones. So little it probably isn’t worth a claim so we won’t have to worry about our insurance dropping us. Last time this happened someone ended up with six inches of sludge in their baement and lost their heater. I’m sorry but in a house less than 2 years old (because it was in the final part of the neighbourhood built) you should NOT have to worry about replacing a heater. (I hope they went electric… I would… haha) But they got dropped!

Apparently these days if you submit ANY claim, they drop you. I know I have a friend who was told after they submitted a claim from a hail storm that that was their one claim so they better make sure everything was on threre. If they were to make another claim they’d be dropped like a burning ember. 😦 That’s wrong. You have insurance to help you when crap happens. Not so you can be dropped or have your insurance doubled. GRR What a freaking racket. I mean, if YOU cause damage and they want to raise because you are high risk… OK. But some freaky fluke like a massive hail storm? Or this? That is totally out of our control. Of course those people down the street who probably got it worse than us and are now making their second claim in six months? EEEK.

Bogus man. Totally bogus.