Day 16 - MORE RAIN

Sorry for the lack of updates recently, we have been busy moving out of the Butterworth place and into our new digs (more on that later).

So day 16 started like several days before - with TONS of rain. This morning it rained well over two inches in about an hour and completely flooded the site.

The exposed level of bricks just above the surface is actually the second course. There was about a foot of standing water after it stopped raining.


The incredibly hard clay earth of our lot doesn't absorb water at all, so it just kept collecting more and more as the rain came down.


Here is a view of the window opening for the bedroom egress window. You can see that the water has come up pretty high on the inside of the wall, but what is harder to make out is that, because some earth fell near the ramp and plugged up that as a drain, the water is very nearly at the top of the opening on the outside of the wall.


Needless to say, the masons aren't getting any work done today.I called Hyo and informed him of the mess and that I was worried about the water rising to the level that would allow it to flow back into the house, and he said he would be out with the pumps again to drain it. True to his word, he came out and stopped the rise before any damage was done. Well, aside from losing a day to mother nature.