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Before I got to college I had an experience at home with flooding in our basement, so I had some prior knowledge on what to do if that happened in any of the places I lived in at school, but I really didn't grasp the whole concept I guess because I was surprised of all the damage it caused when our basement flooded a few months ago. One day I came home from class and it had been raining for about 2 to 3 hours already. I didn't really think anything of it, but later on I needed to go downstairs to do my laundry. So a few hours after that I went down to get my clothes out of the dryer and I saw that the basement had about an inch of water. I freaked out of course because that I where we stored a lot of our stuff including an extra couch and my winter clothes and other valuables. I immediately called my dad and he told us to get the valuables upstairs or at least to higher ground if we could. So we did and thought everything would dry and be okay. Well by the time I came back down to do another load of laundry it had filled up more and hit the stuff in ‘higher ground' so we all had to do more moving around of our stuff and hope that it would help a little.

Finally the raining stopped and the water restoration began. We had to get all of the water out (we used a wet vacuum) and we also had to get the couch fixed. We had someone come and look at it and they said that it would be expensive but it could be done.

Over all the restoring process was not fun. I seriously hope we don't have to do it again in the future (or at least in this house) because we really don't have room upstairs for all of our stuff, so even though we bought these crates to put everything on higher ground, if the water got past 3 or so inches the stuff would probably get wet and we would have to go through the process all over again. Our landlord was really nice about it and helped us out by having part of the basement sealed, which will prevent some water coming in if it ever happens again, but not all.