[Leica] chatty group...flood waters

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

lea offered:
Subject: [Leica] chatty group...flood waters


> Seems we've been enjoying a nice day of chatting so I thought I'd share
> my week.
>
> Friday night, out of nowhere a storm hit Kansas City right between the
> eyes. We were dumped with between 6-8 inches of rain in a 12 mile swath
> which lasted about 2.5 hours. Unfortunately, our home was in the swath.
SNIP.........

>>> From under our side basement door the rain came pouring in. Rain
> gushing, falling, invading open dry space creates a sound like no other.
> A neighbor was here helping us and told me a couple days later that
> he'll never forget the scream I let out when the water came. It was
> unreal. In a matter of minutes our basement was filled with 8" of
> standing water. We have a check valve so it wasn't sewage coming
> in...just rain. Thank God for small favors, huh?<<<<<<<<


HOLY SUFFERIN CAT FISH!!!!!!!!!!
I guess it's some small favour alright, thank goodness you managed to get
your stuff out of the way before it really had fish swimming through the
place.

ted