spawnedoutgobey
Seaman Apprentice
- Joined
- Aug 21, 2012
- Messages
- 49
On July 19th southern Ontario was bit with several severe thunderstorms a vet a week of heat and humidity. The power went out a d I had this feeling it was going to be for a while. I live in the country so I have no water, but what is slowly rising in my sump pit. And with the heavy rains u knew it was just a mashed of time before it started to flood my finished basement. With nothing powerful enough to turn on my sump pump I had to think quick.
I raced up my stairs to my boat. I grabbed my bilge and one of my boat batteries, then to my garage and got some duct tape and a garden hose and some booster cables. I duct taped the cut end of the hose onto the bilge pump and clamped the wires of the bilge into the cables and the cables into the battery. I ran the other end of the house of the Window and dropped the running pump down the sump hole. Two inches to spare.
I went outside to check the water flow and only a trickle. Back inside stripped sone wire on the bilge pump folded it over several times and back onto the jaws of the booster cables. Success, good flow, considering the climb and length of hose. Less than an inch to spare.
My neighbor came two hours later offering to pump out with his generator, then I joined ed him off to other neighbors to help him do the same. In between leaving my bilge running. After pu. Ping out four basements and the rain stoped and the waster inflow slowed we thought it safe to go to bed. I left my boat rig in the sump hole. Two hours later another one comes through. I can't help but hear the rain and rush down to the basement. Hook up my battery again and dust pumping. I head over to my neighbors when TN e rain lightens to find his generator off and not hooked to anything. Tried knocking and waking him to no avail.
I stayed up through the night ready to Pail of water of I had to and ended up falling asleep after switching g batteries.
I woke up a few hours later. My neighbors basement flooded. 3 inches of water. Mine stayed dry. Close but dry. We used the generator to pump it o e more time but after that relied on my bilge to do it. After 30 hours the power came on. It was good to have power back with a new baby and a three year old.
I raced up my stairs to my boat. I grabbed my bilge and one of my boat batteries, then to my garage and got some duct tape and a garden hose and some booster cables. I duct taped the cut end of the hose onto the bilge pump and clamped the wires of the bilge into the cables and the cables into the battery. I ran the other end of the house of the Window and dropped the running pump down the sump hole. Two inches to spare.
I went outside to check the water flow and only a trickle. Back inside stripped sone wire on the bilge pump folded it over several times and back onto the jaws of the booster cables. Success, good flow, considering the climb and length of hose. Less than an inch to spare.
My neighbor came two hours later offering to pump out with his generator, then I joined ed him off to other neighbors to help him do the same. In between leaving my bilge running. After pu. Ping out four basements and the rain stoped and the waster inflow slowed we thought it safe to go to bed. I left my boat rig in the sump hole. Two hours later another one comes through. I can't help but hear the rain and rush down to the basement. Hook up my battery again and dust pumping. I head over to my neighbors when TN e rain lightens to find his generator off and not hooked to anything. Tried knocking and waking him to no avail.
I stayed up through the night ready to Pail of water of I had to and ended up falling asleep after switching g batteries.
I woke up a few hours later. My neighbors basement flooded. 3 inches of water. Mine stayed dry. Close but dry. We used the generator to pump it o e more time but after that relied on my bilge to do it. After 30 hours the power came on. It was good to have power back with a new baby and a three year old.
