Excuse me for the next few days....

[Khephra]

I'm likely to be short tempered and moody.

My basement apartment was flooded today, just 4 days after it happened to a close personal friend here in town too.

Indianapolis is a disaster area right now, or at least it is in a few places. I've heard that there are people using rowboats in part of Indy today.

[GOPisEvil]

1. Argh!! That sucks!

Hope there wasn't too much damage. Yikes!

Consider yourself excused in advance. :-)

[Khephra]

5. I don't quite know yet

I'm lucky in that I had an upstairs that I could move most of my stuff, and you can guess how quickly the computers were moved.

Now as to my couch, bed and tables, we'll have to see. My rug and parts of my video collection are toast. And I also lost two stereo speakers. Probably some other stuff too. I haven't done a full inventory yet.

Worst part of it is that the walls are now cracking in places, and unless we get that fixed pronto they could fall in.

[GOPisEvil]

7. Aw, man...that just flat-out sucks!

Best wishes my friend. I hope everything goes as well as possible!

[GCP]

13. Kheph, do you have insurance?

we had a minor flood in the basement once and the insurance paid for a complete clean-up. including completely drying out the carpets (it's a finished basement), and putting down new under-padding. They told us we really should have it dried out properly otherwise we would have had a toxic mold problem down the line.

[Khephra]

15. Nope

No insurance.

I'm lucky though that the electronics and non-replaceable stuff was mostly saved. It's the hand-me-down stuff that I lost the most of today.

[corarose]

2. Sorry to hear about it

Did it ruin everything or did you get the stuff out in time? Did the sewer back up along with the flood waters?

[Khephra]

9. No sewer back-up yet (cross your fingers)

But we have a flooded cat box down there somewhere that's not too pleasant.

[LynneSin]

3. Now we know which state Bush won't be acknowledging next

Thanks for the headsup - we know that Bush will stay clear away from taht part of the country.

Or he'll come up with some profound statement like if we allow corporations to dump their pollutants into our streams & rivers we can prevent flooding

:eyes:

Hope all is well with you hun!

[Khephra]

8. Bush is actually coming to Indy this week

Floods and now Bush! What did we poor Hoosiers do to deserve such hell in one week?

[LynneSin]

10. I'm not sure which is worst

I never knew such horrible sinners lived in Indiana

[GOPisEvil]

12. If you see locusts, RUN!!!!!

:D

[fishnfla]

4. yes ma'am

see thats a joke because your not a lady. bad joke

[proud patriot]

6. Awe man khephra , that's terrible

I wish you the best in dealing with it . :-(

[Mel]

11. Sorry to hear this bad news

is there anything I can do to help?

If your in a bad mood it's A-Okay by me :loveya: and will understand!

[Khephra]

17. Can you find a reverse-rain-dance?

;-)

[cally]

14. Go now before they run out

and rent/buy water pumps. They do remove most of the water. My sister used a shampooer (she was too late for the real thing) lots of fans, pulled everyting outside and avoided most long term damage. Act now.

Good luck. I hate floods and the damage is awful

Peace and love.

[Khephra]

16. They're all pretty much gone right now

And it being a holiday...

We have a small pump, but the stream of water coming in was too much for it. Once they put in the pump tonight (?..the plumbers van ended up getting stuck in flood coming over) or tomorrow, then I'll be able to use it to better effect.

[Khephra]

18. I should add

That somewhere...dunno where...there seems to be a drain in the basement after all. At first it was just rising and rising, and then suddenly it dropped. The landlord said there isn't a drain, but it appears that it might have been clogged or something, cause it's draining out of the basement on it's own now. :shrug:

Dunno why...

Of course it waited until I had almost all of my stuff upstairs and 10 or so hours to do it.