Flooding 2

Well everything is a lot better!We are going to get new flooring for our basement and for our basement steps.I am so tired from all the work we have done over the weekend and I pray that when Friday rolls around and it rains again that our basement won't flood!

Flooding

Well about seven O clock Saturday morning I hear my dad yell for my mom from the basement so I went downstairs and it had flooded half an inch so we got plastic cups and two five gallon buckets and a plastic container and started filling up the buckets then going outside and dumping them.Then after about an hour of doing that the water was still the same height and my dad came back with a sub pump from Lowes and we thought all of the water would be out within a half hour.So me and my brothers went up stairs then after about O say thirty minutes our dad calls for my brother and that's when we started taking shifts.After hours of work it kept going down then back up so we discovered were the leak was coming from filled it then realized there was more and we could not fill them all cause they were outta reach.So my dad decides wants to buy wet dry vacuums and my mom says ok so he went back to Lowes to get it.Then about half an hour later he comes back without the vacuums and he told us the roads from here to Dickson are closed....(This was the beginning of a LONG night)So we worked and worked the water going on and off like the rain and my mom and dad at about one O clock decided me and Darin could go to bed so we did to get up at six thirty to start again.We found out my dad got an hour and a half of sleep and my mom three.So we kept going and going and going...Tired,hungry,cold,soaked and ready for it to be over we had to keep going.So about nine my dad leaves for Lowes to get the vacuums and which he does and we have been taking shifts on and off all day sucking up the water dumping it in a cooler while the sub pump pumps it from the cooler down the hill.We will probably have to stay up all night tonight to try and get all the water outta there,fix the leaks,get the water outta the carpet and salvage what we can....My dad will probably take off work tomorrow if he can to try to fix what ever we don't do tonight.....