I have moved the archives a foot off the ground, and I am getting appx 2500 gallons of water in the basement so far in 3 hours. If we lose power I will have to carry appx 150 packed crates of archived hardware up two flights of stairs. Wish me luck, and hope the power stays on to keep the pumps running.
And this is why I'd never make a basement in to a games room or a place to store stuff. Far too many times have I seen pictures of sorry collections ruined by water. ASSEMbler, get that stuff out as fast as you can. You have some great stuff that can't be lost. Yakumo
Basement preservation is VERY easy for bare carts in the event of flooding. Buy Totes. not the expensive ones because the cheap are basically the same. Put bare carts into ziplock bags. If you get the big ones in you can have multiple per bag but I'd prefer one cart per ziplok bag because then you dont have cart corners piercing sides. Close those suckers up and get as many as possible into a tote. Totes are water resistant from dripping and wont let to much in. In the event of flooding it might rush in but then everything is in the ziplock bags which wont let anything in. Unless of course the water is either A. red hot and melts the bag or B. has something in it that would eat the plastic. Anything boxes etc that wont go into ziplock bags rush upstairs NOW. Long story short, If you havent preserved things in this way and don't have the resources/time to do it now get everything upstairs now incase there is a sudden flash flood.
Nope, not at all. I live in Yamaguchi though on high land so i'm safe. There are some parts that can be flooded but it's only under freak weather conditions that it would happen. The town of Chofu was flooded about 8 years ago when k lived there thanks to a typhoon bringing the Kamon straight (the sea between honshu and kyushu) in to the town. I lived on the 3rd floor then so i was safe although thousands of otheres weren't. Chofu is pretty low ground though. Thank God I don't live there any more. Yakumo
Pumping since 3am, appx 10,000+ gallons of water removed. Soil is so saturated I saw standing pools of water and I have never ever seen water pool on the soil here.
My geography sucks Southeast of Osaka. I know some places down there get fucked every year. My area is cool (I'm on floor 2 at the top of a hill) but for example, Suginami-ku (about a a mile or two from where I lived when I first moved here) seems to get fisted regularly by Typhoons.
Just make sure you're pumping it well away from your property, as close to the street as possible. I'm sure you're doing the best you can.
That's the key. I had a small amount of water (1 gallon?) enter my basement. It was due to one of my downspouts getting clogged with pine needles and allowing water to pool next to the foundation. So it's a good idea to make sure gutters are working and water drains away from the house (e.g, land slopes away from the house).
Speaking of your Archives, will we ever see a new tour of them. A while back you posted a video that years later attracted me to this website but that seems to be gone now.
That sucks man! Good luck with pumping out all the water, and as the others said, go and save some history please! , better take everything you can to high ground. Let us know what happened! This. Couldn't agree more.
