The world is weird sometimes. I feel like this across the board are kinda shitty right now, but I had a nice extra does of shininess this past couple of weeks. Those of us in the northern Illinois region have been hit with some pretty heavy storms. I think we had 3-5 storm events that dropped +2" of rain in less than an hour over the course of about ten days. I experienced seepage in my basement for the first time from these storm events. Thankfully the actual amount of water was minor and just amounts to mostly wetness under the flooring.
I do have pull all of the flooring up however. The benefit and bane of waterproof vinyl floors is that the water has probably spread to a larger area than where it actually seeped in, so there is going to have to be some investigation as to where the water is coming from. I have my first meeting with a company next week to take a look at the foundation.
Megan thankfully has talked me off my panic attack this past week, and I am slowly coming to realize that while the basement might be impacted for the next couple of months, we thankfully have not had any real damage.
Just when I was getting a handle on the situation though, I saw a mouse today in the basement while pulling up some floorboards. The cats are on high alert, but my anxiety immediately spiked back up after this incident. An exterminator is I guess also now on our list of things to do in the next week or so.