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« Caption this photo | Main | Cameratoss » October 15, 2005How's your basement?11:23 p.m. Friday: Our 170-year-old house is close to nature. We've got an inch and a half of water around the boiler, visibly pouring in at ground level through a hole between the original foundatioa and a crawlspace under the kitchen added in 1850. Its entirely dry ground level is four feet higher than the basement floor, leading us to wonder if there's a spring under the house rising with the rains. 6:38 a.m. It's four inches now. We know because Joe had been working down there yesterday with a radio playing. He must have turned it all the way off, to the alarm setting, because classical music started floating up from the basement at 6:30. He put on boots and waded through water to turn it off. There's a pump in the shed, and an excursion through the sheets of rain is imminent. 10:33 a.m. Four to six inches and holding, thanks to the submersible pump. A garden hose is snaking up and out the cat flap. Posted by Sheila Lennon |
my passport photo blogging since 2002 garden blogs archived headlines  Sheila Lennon is features & interactive producer of projo.com, the Web site of The Providence (R.I.) Journal Rhode Island |
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