In the past almost four years that littleprncess and I have owned our house we have never had a water problem in the basement. Maybe I cannot say that we’ve never had a water problem in the basement, the washer has spewed suds all over the place before. We have never had a flooding problem in the basement before yesterday.
When I hear about water in a basement I imagine about a foot of standing water. This was definitely not the case in my basement. One wall started to seep water. It is a very slow leak right at the bottom of the stairs. At this moment nothing appears to be in danger of getting damaged. I have placed a small little wall of caulk across the floor in an attempt to divert the water to the low point of the floor. This low point also happens to be where the non-flooding floor drain is.
So now we have to come up with a solution for the next time that it rains for almost 48 hours straight.