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The idea of Mu, the lost continent, first appeared in the works of Augustus Le Plongeon (1825?1908), after his investigations of the Maya ruins in Yucat?n. Ironicaly, Le Plongeon means The Plunge !Wish you a dry week tho
Ski, if you need to fill in the cracks when you still have water in your basement, I think that Vitruvius has a recipe for Roman pozzolana cement which sets while wet… ;D
I may have to try that, but hydraulic cement is supposed to be OK to use wet as well. It just takes longer to set. I must not have done a good job. For about an hour, almost all the water was gone so I turned one pump off. Within an hour, the water is back up again. AAARRRGHHH!! It could be the lady in the back. I think she had hers off all day until she came back from work. It's not really that close to my yard though, and I'm certainly not going to tell her to stop. Apparently there must be an underground stream that goes directly from her yard to the cracks in my foundation.Obama please save me!!!I am complaining a lot, but Sunday's local paper had pictures of the bad spots. And, MAN, they were bad. Even people with basements had water 4-5 feet in their first floor and everything's ruined (refrigerators turned on their side in the kitchen?? Yikes) Yeah, it's a pain here, but I feel bad for them.
I must not have done a good job. For about an hour, almost all the water was gone so I turned one pump off. Within an hour, the water is back up again. AAARRRGHHH!! It could be the lady in the back.
I was going to say - I wonder if your neighbor is pumping her water within the perimeter of your house's foundation. Or else the ground is still so saturated even if it's not raining that you'll continue to get a lot of water for a few more days. Hopefully the problem will be made easier once your sump pump is back up and working.
Man, I hope you got all the water out by now. If your basement stays wet too long it can do seriously bad things to your foundation. A friend of ours had her house condemened because her foundations were undermined by water, but her basement was flodded for someting like two months during the spring runoff where I live and her town is right on the side of a mountain. Hope it gets better soon.
Still some damp spots, but as of yesterday it's finally dry.
Good to hear. Hope that doesn't happen again for another 100 years.
