March 23, 2021... (Yesterday)

I came home from school to help my father home with some yard work since he was building a new fence. Right after we finished moving a log out of the way we go inside and have a seat in the kitchen. After talking for a little while we both look at each other.

Our conversation:

Dad: "Do you hear the water running?"

Me: "Yeah I do, why?"

Dad: "I don't know, I was just wondering... I think Mom started the laundry machine."

Mom: "Yeah, I started it an hour ago."|

Dad: "Oh alright."

Me: "Want me to text you if it's something bad???"

Dad:"I am sure it's fine."

Me: "Okay."

I then head downstairs, I heard a noise that sounded like the shower so I check in the shower in the basement and it wasn't on. Once I realized that my mom said the laundry was running so I checked out the laundry room...

My basement was flooded. (Phase 1)

I stepped in the laundry room and the water was up to my ankle (About 2.5 inches deep!) and it was spraying absolutely everywhere!

(This image was taken later on once we cleaned up most of it.)

I run upstairs and tell my dad about it and we run back down and he turns off the water and grabs a wet-dry vacuum and starts to clean things up. After a lot of back and forth dumping water in the toilet the majority of the water was gone.

Time to rip up the rug! (Phase 2)

We began to tear out the rug flooring and bring out the drenched carpet into a pile we will soon throw into the dumpster. After about 3 hours of work the whole basement was ripped up except for the corner my PC was in. We also had to bring up bins of old toys that were scattered around the storage room, so we brought it outside and poured them on our old trampoline to dry.

Drying the basement. (Phase 3)

We bought some rental tools such as an industrial fan to circulate the air around the room and an industrial dehumidifier to collect all of the moisture in the air. After about 24 hours of the machines running we brought them both back to home depot.

The end of the cleaning. (For now...)

Earlier today (as of this post) I moved the stuff out of the way so I could talk to my friends and write this post. I am very happy my computers and other equipment survived. Hopefully the basement gets fixed up soon and I will try to let you guys know in my next news post, thank you for all the support to those who have already reached out to me and hopefully everyone understand why I may be inactive for a while because I have to help out with this mess. Hope you all have a better day than I had and I'll see you guys later!

[Photos of the flood.]

[Footage I recorded.]