Rainstorms & Flooding

 This is the start to an unfortunate saga with our basement.  In the end, it was likely my fault for not doing a good job of clearing the rain gutters above this basement window.  We had some torrential down pour just after the 4th of July and with the gutters backed up, there was a literal river being dumped straight down this window well.  Eventually it was too much water to be contained by our old windows and it started flowing through...though it could have been much worse.

The carpet was super old and gross that had been down here so rather than trying to dry it out at all, I just decided today was the day we are going to make a move towards recarpeting down here.  So, I grabbed a knife and just cut out the old, wet carpet and assessed how bad it was.  It turns out that it wasn't that bad and with a few fans blowing overnight, we were mostly dry within 24 hours.  Unfortunately, there still would be a bit of work to do to clean this up besides just drying out the sub-floor a bit...