We’ve recently had rain. Serious rain… frog stranglers.
It was exciting to see the storms approach, to hear the tornado sirens, to watch my garden overflow with water… to see the rainwater pour off of the roof – laughing at the gutters (OK…. so they were packed with pine duff)… to watch the pond that formed alongside my home… to watch it rise until it expanded into the sunporch… to be in the basement with my kids hearing new and interesting running water noises as it made its way into my home…. from somewhere in the foundation. Huh.
Now we’re in fix it mode.
Finally bought a shop vac to suck the water out of the crawl space under the den… and decided to tackle the sunporch next. Remember this?
and this:
Suddenly we have this:
and this:
and this:
Yep – the moldy carpet was removed to reveal the moldy green and red painted concrete floor. Yuck.
So now we’ve got to clean that floor, remove the old paint, dry it out… fix the drainage problem in the back of the house (which started with a clean out of the gutters), and the re-clean that floor and finally re-paint that floor.
It’s going to take a while to dry out the sunporch – as it’ll involve diverting drainage around it…
Funny how hard it is to stay high and dry – even when you’re sitting on top of the moraine 
oh no! Glad to see the damage wasn’t any worse, but this was a shock…when I saw your post title, I thought it was going to be about a spontaneous trip to Nevada….this is decidedly less fun.