Topic: The storm
started by: Liberal
Posted by Liberal on Jul. 07 2022,8:42 pm
When we had the rainstorm I didn't even go into my basement because we never have water in it. Yesterday about 2:30 I came home to my house smelling like shit. I opened the basement door and there's was a foot of sewage that had came up the drain, and everything was floating.I went down there today armed with a hose and tried to save some of my hand tools because the adjuster said I could. I saved a tile saw, a framing saw, a chop saw, miter saw, and wire feed welder, and a bunch of smaller stuff. That's about all I saved after 35 years of buying tools.
Insurance pretty much just asked me what I thought the damages were and they'd send me a check. I said, "WTF lady, did you not hear me say there's raw sewage in my basement? I don't care what the damages are because you're taking taking care of it and I'm paying a $500 deductible and not 1 penny more."
Even then I've had to spend $300 out of pocket today just to get a dumpster.
At least the recovery people will be here at 10am to start on it.
And I know I shouldn't have gone down there's at all being immune compromised but it's pretty hard sitting around not to trying to save things
Posted by Expatriate on Jul. 08 2022,5:35 am
^^That happened over here during the September 2016 storm, sump pump failure and the sewer backed up.Lost a clothes dryer, was able salvage the furnace $200. in replacement parts, water heater relit with new termalcouple.
My insurance is a thousand dollar deductible so I just ate the loss and never filed a claim.
At that time the city had FEMA come to town, a number of my Neighbors had their damage covered by the government.
These little drain plugs work they'll block any backup. If we're getting a major rain storm I'll put it in my drain.
When the ground is saturated the sanitary sewer loads up easily if you're in a older Neighborhood, unless you're close to a lift station.
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Posted by Brand New Day on Jul. 08 2022,8:00 am
oh geez sorry to hear that. that's. .. ughhhhfrom what have heard. . that black water is really caustic. . and makes saving things almost impossible
aren't those plugs technically illegal?
remember the city wide sewer camera scoping project?
also have all the lift stations been replaced by now?
vaguely remember city engineer Jahnke more or less expressing the city sewer issues as being darn near insurmountable
hah
Posted by Expatriate on Jul. 08 2022,8:07 am
@ Lib, the 2016 flood was Sept. 22, I think it was a few weeks before the city got FEMA to town.I called the city garage, those guys were on the ball, they were here within 10 minutes pulled the cover off the sewer and started pumping... the drains started taking the waste water out of our basements.
I'm always up early, this pic is what I woke up to Sept. 22, 2016
Posted by Expatriate on Jul. 08 2022,8:29 am
BND Quote:QUOTE
aren't those plugs technically illegal?
They sell them at Bomgaars, you can install a check valve in your line but without proper maintenance they tend to stick.
The plug is a cheap DIY, problem you leave it in and a pipe burst you're going to have an internal flood.
Older homes have clay tile sewer pipes, they're joined together every couple feet. they tend to leak
It's a real spendy fix to replace these tiles.
Watched a This Old House where they put a liner inside the old Tiles.
Posted by Liberal on Jul. 13 2022,11:55 pm
Fuck this city. I lost almost every piece of video equipment and most of my tools. I got 2 bids to clean and demo and they were $10,000 and $13000. My insurance decided cleanup was $7k, and property loss was $6k because my max payout was $13,000Then I hear the city wants us to try to get help from semcac, and they'll match "Part of the amount". Stupid bastards have known inflow and infiltration has been a problem for years and instead of fixing the problem they try to clean that settling pond of a lake for the wannabe rich cunts.
Posted by Liberal on Jul. 21 2022,8:22 pm
Heaviest thing I've carried out of my shit-water filled basement is my books. When I dumped the last box in the dumpster this fell out.
Posted by Brand New Day on Jul. 22 2022,7:49 am
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what was it like an hour to get your email?
remember the guy who sold Time Machines had a website. you had to upgrade with the crystals for the maximum experience. seems like he was shut down by a court order maybe?
think it was talked about in the Napoleon Dynamite movie. . .
was getting rid of some old computer stuff a few years ago.
had windoze 95 on floppies in the box. it must have been the 2.1 cause there were more than 13. . donated it with some other antiquated stuff to the Salvation Army.
they probably through it in the dumpster. hah
The retail floppy disk version of Windows 95 came on 13 DMF formatted floppy disks, while OSR 2.1 doubled the floppy count to 26. Both versions exclude additional software that the CD-ROM version might have featured
FF to today:
it is going to be the downfall of mankind with all the deranged computer political brain damage