Close call with the ice storm this weekend.

[tophatne1]

We got hit hard with that ice storm here in Schenectady,NY. the power was out for over 4 days at our house.
The power outage wouldn't have been so bad in itself but the sub pump eventually ran out of back up power and the basement flooded.

Luckily I notice it quick enough to get thing up off the floor. My Mame cab that I've been working on since March 2005 barely escaped being soaked.

[ghettodish]

Woot! TopHat saves!!

[tophatne1]

Boy...that head tattoo in your avatar is something else.

[cmoses]

We got hit hard with that ice storm here in Schenectady,NY. the power was out for over 4 days at our house.
The power outage wouldn't have been so bad in itself but the sub pump eventually ran out of back up power and the basement flooded.

Luckily I notice it quick enough to get thing up off the floor. My Mame cab that I've been working on since March 2005 barely escaped being soaked.

So is your basement built below the water level of the local river/lake/ocean?  Seems like that would be a problem?

[RayB]

High water table makes it hard for water to drain away quick enough, so they build a "sump pit" where water gather in, and the SUMP pump pumps it out into the sewer line.

[tophatne1]

In short. YES it is below the water line.

When we were going to build there the neighbors were surprised since they all though it was a designated wetland area. The town and city approved it for building and said it wasn't.

Well when they dug out for the basement they hit water. They couldn't go down any further so as it is our basement is a little higher than originally intended. But they still were in the water already and just poured the concrete and put in a sub pump. They did some extra drainage work supposedly. We've had nothing but problem with water everywhere on the property since we've move in.

I want to finish the basement someday but this makes me think that isn't going to happen. I know I could spend a ton of money to make it virtually water proof but I don't know.

Almost want to sell it and move on. My wife won't go though.

It's a whole big mess.

[Lutus]

You could always install a "floating floor".  I think that is the official name.  They use them a lot in server rooms so they can run all the cabling under the floor.  Actually, that would be a cool idea in any arcade I would think.

[fixedpigs]

looks like you saved the live-action pipe dreams too...!