Water in the Basement!!

We did a quick run to Jersey on Saturday to pick up bikes and more stuff out of storage. There wasn’t much we could do at the house. We had moved everything in that we had in the car and it was suppose to rain all day. So we decided to do a quick up and back to Jersey!!

We got back in he evening and moved the bikes into the house as one of the garage doors was broken and wouldn’t close. Our intention was to get them in the basement….

And to our horror — 2 inches of water in the basement! We’ve had wet basements and when we looked at the house we saw NO evidence of water. No water lines on the walls or appliances, no sump pump, no evidence of a wet basement and it was dry, BONE dry!! But it was no longer.

Seven days of rain and there we were new home owners with a sump pump in storage in New Jersey, where we had just been earlier that very day!!

Well, bikes moved into the dining room (where bikes SHOULD be!!), and we headed back to the hotel with fingers crossed that the water would not rise all night long. (I personally did not sleep!)