It has been a long ass day!

So we knew there were storms coming. But we were not prepared for 4 hours of storms, rain, wind and more rain. The thunder was out of control and it was hard to sleep (except if you were under the age of 2, then you didn't hear anything and slept the night away!). We've never had water problems in our basement, a trickle here or there but nothing like our neighbors have had in the past! About 2 am, Steve took a look downstairs. He didn't even have to take a step down and he saw water, we knew it was trouble. The water was coming up the sewer drain and there was no stopping it!
This is our main basement area, that we had started to finish....thank goodness this is all the farther we got!
less than 10 minutes later, it just kept coming in.

This is our laundry/bath/storage room, where the drain was located. We had the most water back here, it was easily over 12 inches high by morning.

This is the last time I actually got into the water. The sump pump was running, the sewer was still pumping water into our basement and then our furnace started making noise so we had to turn the air conditioner off (with 90 degree weather all week, I was worried!)

I took Presley to my mom's about 8 and Steve and I started in with our clean up. The neighborhood was buzzing! Everyone was outside, pumping water, talking about what to do. The lady across the street had 4 FEET of water in her basement!!!!

We had a lot of things in plastic bins and were able to get most of them to higher ground without getting ruined. But we lost a lot of things too, makes me sad but it always could've been worse!

I should be able to talk to a claims adjuster tomorrow to figure out what insurance will cover, we took pictures of everything we threw away just in case we are able to claim it.

The air conditioner is on, but we will be having it checked anyway. We'll probably need a new hot water heater and dryer (I had to shopvac water out of the inside of the dryer!) Right now, the washing machine looks promiseable if we can get hot water!

All the water is out and everything is trashed or drying out in the garage. We still need to bleach everything and get it all dryed out before we move anything back in. Hopefully tomorrow will provide us with more answers. I shouldn't complain, this is really the first 'bad' thing to happen to our home in the time we have lived here.

Thanks to Jordan, Derek (sorry about your toe!), and Jared for coming over to help!!! We couldn't have done it without you!

Thanks to my parents for watching Presley extra late and letting us borrow whatever we needed!

It's 9 and I'm ready for bed. Steve finally stopped working in the basement and just left for Wal-mart. I think we'll both sleep good tonight!...now if only I can get Presley to sleep! :)