Aarrghh...won't be seeing much from me...

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RonZ

>Sorry to hear that Mike. At least no tools were messed up. Good luck on the clean up.

My shop is in an enclosed porch with a drain pipe going through it. need I say more? It did get some of my tools but not the lathe.

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Glenn Hodges

>Mike, sorry to hear about the problem with flooding basement. With this kind of luck, you just might be kin to me.

Nashville, Georgia

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Arch

>Hey Mike, We rednecks never clean up after floods, hurricanes, or overflowing swamps. Don't waste your time away from turning and sharing with us. Just add five gallons of LDD to the waters, make sure of electrical safety and keep on turning. Your feet will smell good, your floor clean and your logs preserved. After a turning session just take your clothes off and drop them on the LDDed shop floor instead of on the usual bedroom rug. All things can be bright & beautiful. Arch

----and crack free! Arch

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scott stefanoski in Bitter Baltimore

>bummer mike. iirc, you seem to have had a real rough time with water lately.

BTW, how is triathalon training going in this wonderful weather?

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Mike Schwing from Maryland

>Training? Its not. I have to face realities occasionally. I was in pretty good shape till the snows came and didn't melt away, but since then I've been swimming only. Tough winter for an outdoor athlete. Good thing I have a floor to worry about.

I don't think I told you guys how this happened. This freaking sucks. We discovered a flooded basement, a LOT of water all over the floor, and looked in the basin that the washing machine empties in. Found a sponge - one I was using for oiling a cutting board. ARGH! OK, clean up best we can. MAYBE the floor won't pop up. Brought in the shop vacs and dehumidifiers.

My bride decided to do another load of laundry. Why not, right? We found the problem. 10 minutes later she screams, its happening all over again. I look in the basin to see whats clogging it - its empty! HUH? Oh shoot, its the water heater. Look at all of the water around it. Nuts. OK, drain the water heater, shut it off. Clean up the mess. Now the floor tiles were popping up. The floor is going to have to go.

As I was emptying the shop vac I noticed something a little odd.....THE HOSE FROM THE WASHING MACHINE SOMEHOW ESCAPED THE BASIN AND WAS EMPTYING RIGHT ONTO THE FLOOR.

Thats not an easy thing to have happen. There's a clamp right on the wall that almost ensures that it won't move. Neither of us know how it occured.

Good thing I didn't put in a new water heater. We would have gone through all of that only to have it happen AGAIN next time we used the washing machine.

My luck with water has been really lousy. I still feel lucky though, I have a home to worry about. All of those folks so close by still are without their homes after Isabel.

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David Eaves

>Hi Mike,

Sorry to hear of your problems. At least you've got to the bottom of the cause of it. I hope your back turning soon.

David