when it rains it pours...

and pour it did! today we had a HUGE thunderstorm that dumped a ton of rain on our mid-michigan town. Our street flooded to the point where my husband and a friend had to push a neightbor from the street into her driveway. The rainstorm was quite a site to watch as it poured and poured and poured. The local new channel says that 4-5 1/2 inches fell in some areas around here! That's an amazing amount of water in less than an hour. We discovered a bit later, much to our dismay, that the storm drain had backed up and a couple of inches of water had collected in our basement. So....down we went with fans and mops and the shop vac to begin the clean-up. Thankfully, the storm drains caught up fairly quickly and the water started to recede. We successfully sucked up and mopped up all the standing water but will have to go back for some more intense cleaning after the fans dry things out a bit more. Ah the joys of home ownership!
Even when the drains back up and you are cleaning up "questionable" water from your basement, God is so so so good!

Kendra