Rain, Rain Go Away...

We were hit pretty hard by the storms last Friday. Our power went out at 10:30pm Friday night and didn't come back on until Tuesday afternoon. A big thanks to Grandpa and Grandma Fearrin for letting us stay at their house while we waited. In addition to the power being out, we suffered some damage.

A tree in the yard split but thankfully it fell into the yard and away from the house.

Also our basement flooded. We didn't realize it until Saturday morning, but we both had to work so the clean up effort didn't begin until after 4:00 on Saturday. There was at least 9 inches of water we had to pump out. We rented a gas powered pump since our sump-pump wasn't running (who knew we didn't have a battery backup!). To say the very least, the water pump was incredibly difficult to use and we finally got all the water out Sunday evening. Of course more came back in Monday. Augh! So it was another trip back to the rental company to rent a generator to get the sump-pump running again.
Here's a shot of Kyle walking the water pump hose around the backyard trying not to flood it.

Taking care of a 2 month old baby while trying to save the basement was the most difficult part of the entire weekend. We can't thank the Claps family, Nicole Kelker and my mom enough for the hours they spent babysitting Carter. THANK YOU!!!!

We now have a dry basement. A water restoration company came in and hauled away the big stuff like mattresses and furniture that couldn't be saved. Everything else is in our garage and piled throughout the house. We also had to throw away everything in our fridge and freezer including 5 weeks worth of expressed breast milk. I'm sure all nursing mothers out there understands how frustrating that is for me.