The Great Flood of 2010 Part 2

On Saturday morning, we were supposed to be on a flight to San Francisco to meet Denny, Vivian, and Andrew at 8am.  Instead, we woke up at 5:30am and found ~2ft of water in our basement.  It had rained ~10 inches in less than 8 hours and the street sewers backed-up into our basement.  The power was out for 4 hours, and our sump pump never kicked in again.  Dave rushed to Home Depot and got there when it opened.  He was elbow-to-elbow with people and bought a new sump-pump and a portable pump to help get the water out.  We were pumping water into our bathtub and into the street before most of our neighbors were even awake.  Luckily, Melissa's dad was on  his way to Chicago to fly out Saturday night, so he helped us all day.  He and Dave got the furnace, hot water heater, washer and dryer all working again.  We delayed our trip until Monday, but managed to get the sofa, ottoman, and drywall completely dry.  We lost a futon mattress, small fridge and chest freezer.  It's a good thing that we hadn't replaced the carpetting yet from the last flood!