manfredo
Well-Known Member
Glad you are safe and dry!!It's been 1 in 11 so far
Basement is totally dry. Zero damage in my yard. We got lucky.
My bosses shop has water and mud in the back corner of it. And water is still flowing around it. His driveway is an easy 15" lower in some spots. Looks like the grass held the ground together and you just stripped out the driveway
We got hit hard here in 2006, and then even harder in 2011, so we might be due. All it takes is for one storm to stall overhead and drop 6+ inches of rain.
In 2011 I had just had a hip replacement, and I had a beautiful rental house that a professor just moved into, with a newborn baby. The basement got filled so everything down there had to be replaced. Furnace, water heater, electric service, all wiring that got wet, and it was partly finished. They lost some stuff too...I had the tenants back in there in 15 days, complete with mold testing because they were worried with the newborn, and I think I had to give them 3 months free rent. They were kind of asses about it, but whatever. Not like I requested it!!
They actually just passed a law here that now tenants have to be notified of any previous flooding....Which is only fair!!
Landlords Will Soon Have to Inform Tenants About Flood Risks
To help renters make better-informed choices, leases must disclose a property’s propensity to flood and whether it suffered flood damage in the past.
www.thecity.nyc