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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:
--- Quote from: tophatne1 on December 17, 2008, 10:53:47 pm ---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.
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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.