Over the night, we had quite a bit of rain, somewhere over 4 inches resulting in some flooding in the basement.
The hallway was fairly wet.
The rest of the hallway was even more wet and...
…extended to the boiler room.
The chem lab was also flooded.
The O-Gauge room had water lining up with and slightly wider than the door. Fortunately the water did not extend to the NW corner where we had items stored in cardboard boxes. Will have to put them on pallets just in case.
The HO-Gauge room did not escape the flood.
Thanks to the heroic efforts of Al, Eric, Frank and Tom, the water was sopped up in under two hours. Fans and A/C were left on to further dry out the floor. No real damage except for some of the ends of our wood in the hall getting wet.
We're not sure how the water got in. Doesn't appear to be poor drainage from the roof downspouts. Best guess is that the water entered thru the boiler room door and traveled up the hall and flooded the rooms. This is the first time the chem lab and HO room had water. Both of them are on the same side of the building.
Had more flooding than usual. The boiler floor had water from a chronic leak in the chimney area on the other side of the hall.
Oddly, there was no water leakage, just some dampness, in the NE corner of the O-gauge room. An area prone to leakage.
Guess some leakage is not unusual for a 90 year old just like the rest of us.
