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Those chrome wire shelves are good because you can set the bottom shelf up from the ground... in fact it says in the instructions if you're using them in food service they have to be a certain distance from the floor so you can clean under it. I've found the ones from Home Depot are the best (the large size, 48" L x 18" W x 72" H) because they have bars going across the depth/width and not the length, so they are MUCH stronger than the ones that have the bars going left right and only a few bars going from front to back. They'll rust if they get wet for too long but at least they won't insta-collapse like fiberboard shelving.

I feel for ya!! Most of us old timers have a horror story like yours. We have the memory so fresh in our minds that we can literally feel your pain. I hope that the actual loss is much less than you believe right now. You will get through it. It still SUCKS though. Good luck with the clean up.

thanks everyone. i did get down there tonight and got it cleaned up. it wasn't half as bad as i thought. only three totes got wet. and i was able to salvage most of it. the stuff i couldn't save wasn't a big deal. just wish the water would stop coming in. not much water in the sump pump hole, i guess the water table is just so high this year so the water is seeping in through my walls or floor or something, i tried squeeging it up and it's useless it comes in faster than i can get it out. oh well, my basement is just for storage anyway. but thanks again for everyone that gave me encouragement and good wishes.

Glad to hear that not all was lost. Sorry that you had to go through that.

Boy doesn't it suck tho. Thinking back- I did have a gang of mice eating my papier mache last year- threw out alot of stuff I spent days on. Rotten mice.

I felt all dumb...like what a dirty loser I am. The I went to Dead Spider's web page, Lady Aranamuerta, and saw mice got alot of her stuff also.

Guess one way or the other something will get you.

creepingdth glad to hear it turned out be less lost than you had feared. I've lost things to water in our basement before too.

One corner of our house sits on a lower part of the yard, and always collects water, thus, we get it coming in along the side walls instead of the sump pump. We had to install "basement gutters" (gutters under the floor along the walls) that direct this water to our sump pump. It's worked ~very well for us - we've been dry after a couple of "100 year" rains.

I hope it starts drying up for ya!

i'm always afraid i'm going to get mice down there, more afraid of finding some dead or alive for that matter in one of my totes. i found out why i'm getting water, when i put my new basement in the guy that did it left the cement block that my hot water heater was on. he just poured cement around that block and didn't get in the middle and stuff so there's cracks which is where the water is coming from. yay.

Originally Posted by thathalloweenguy

I feel for ya!! Most of us old timers have a horror story like yours. We have the memory so fresh in our minds that we can literally feel your pain. I hope that the actual loss is much less than you believe right now. You will get through it. It still SUCKS though. Good luck with the clean up.

Leaking flooded shed after a hurricane, Yeah, I feel ya!
Horrible!!!