Our house... Just flooded..

J-man · Post by **J-man** » Sat May 27, 2006 7:18 am

So anyway, as some of you might know, we're living in a basement apertment, while fixing up our 'new' house so we can move into sometime soon.. Anyway, yesterday me and my dad and brother went down to work on out 'new' house. Then my mom and sisters came down to our house and they left around 3:00. So anyway we get back to our apartment and my little sister walks down the stairs and my little sister takes off her shoes(but not her socks..). Then she steps onto the floor and yelled "The floors wet!". So yeah, our washer flooded and half the house was all wet.. Most of it carpet too.. Thankfully there was a drain in the laundry room and we drained it, then we used a wet-vac to suck up the rest in the carpet, although its still wet.. So yeah, never leave your washer on when you go away, it might flood the house!

Samwise · Post by **Samwise** » Sat May 27, 2006 7:34 am

Ugh, glad you got the thing solved. Hope the moving transition goes smoothly.

Stubborn · Post by **Stubborn** » Sat May 27, 2006 7:44 am

Ditto

We once had that happen to us...but it was upstairs on the roof so it didn't matter much.

What a pain in the neck. Evil washers.

Lucy

J-man · Post by **J-man** » Sat May 27, 2006 7:55 am

Yeah.

*kills washer*

Stubborn · Post by **Stubborn** » Sat May 27, 2006 8:02 am

*helps J-man kill all washers*

But wait....then my clothes will all be dirty!

Oh well.

Lucy

The Top Crusader · Post by **The Top Crusader** » Sat May 27, 2006 8:05 am

That's what you get for leaving Lima!

Stubborn · Post by **Stubborn** » Sat May 27, 2006 8:09 am

Amadeo wrote:That's what you get for leaving Lima!

Lima isn't any good.

Lucy

Frank · Post by **Frank** » Sat May 27, 2006 12:29 pm

Poor J-man! Did you have to stand around with a blowdryer to dry out the carpet?

COWBOY OF TEXAS · Post by **COWBOY OF TEXAS** » Sat May 27, 2006 12:44 pm

I remember when I was about five and our house flooded. Water was coming into our house from this one closet we kept all our games in.

So, I kinda know what you're going through.

-Cowboy

Larry The Pickle · Post by **Larry The Pickle** » Sat May 27, 2006 1:32 pm

We had that happen once! Although it was from rain not a washer. And the water was like 3 feet deep in our basement. I was just a little tike, so it was so fun!!!!

J-man · Post by **J-man** » Sat May 27, 2006 6:01 pm

Haha well we've had it come through the window too..

The floor is still semi-wet, and it's terriblely humid in here.. I wish we had a de-humidifier..

DanP740 · Post by **DanP740** » Sat May 27, 2006 6:08 pm

If you could swim and your basement was empty, you could just make it into a pool!

gimp80995 · Post by **gimp80995** » Sat May 27, 2006 6:44 pm

Lucy wrote:*helps J-man kill all washers*

But wait....then my clothes will all be dirty!

just wear them until they're visably dirty or smelly then throw 'em away and get new ones

Peace Out

-Gimp

Post by **Catspaw** » Sat May 27, 2006 10:43 pm

Oh, that's not good!

I hope that your stuff is safe and that it remains that way!

gimp80995 · Post by **gimp80995** » Sun May 28, 2006 8:44 am

I knew reading this would be bad it's really my fault, but I've gotta blame someone

Yesterday after reading this I was washing my pillows and pillow cases and stuff like that........then decided (after the washer was almost full of water) that four pillows just didn't look like they'd wash good in there, so I took two out, put them in the laundry basket.......no problemo......pick up the laudry basket to put it in the bath tub until the next wash, water from the pillows went all over the floor

Peace Out

-Gimp

Dr. Watson · Post by **Dr. Watson** » Sun May 28, 2006 11:40 am

Though our washer has never flooded our house, one time the water didn't drain out of the washer. My dad, Laura, and myself spent like an hour bailing the washer out with cups and stuff...

Country Girl · Post by **Country Girl** » Sun May 28, 2006 12:38 pm

LOL Funny stories!!! (at least to and for me

)

We've never had anythign like that happen to us. *shrug* my aunt and uncle have though

they had a pool at the bottom of a hill, and when it would rain alot, the pool would overflow, and flood their house

they've fixed it now though

Laurie · Post by **Laurie** » Sun May 28, 2006 4:43 pm

My mother read a story in the newspaper about a family who went on vaction and before they left the mother started the dishwasher. They came back and the dishwasher had malfunctioned and the floors, carpets, just about everything was ruined. After reading that story in the paper my mother would never go out and leave the washer or the dishwasher running. She always made sure that they were turned off before we left the house. I am the same way.

Lucy Pevensie · Post by **Lucy Pevensie** » Mon May 29, 2006 7:57 am

Our house has never flooded before. I'm sorry about the flooding, I hope things get better quick!

I have flooded some other things before though.

AIOfan11 · Post by **AIOfan11** » Mon May 29, 2006 8:04 am

Wow! I am sorry, J-man! I hope there isn't mold or mildew!

Keep us updated.