The basement has flooded AGAIN. It's 4 a.m. and there is 2 inches of water covering my bedroom. I'm wet, the bed is wet, the animals are wet, everything is just soaked. This is the fifth time in 6 months that this has happened. And this time I have no vacuum to clean it up with. I don't know what to do.
The deal is, we have a sump pump. It has turns on ok but doesn't shut itself off ever, so has to be manually shut off. John's dad gets angry if he hears it run dry for even a second so we've taken to just unplugging it at night and checking it every couple hours. Even when it hasn't rained for days, the basement still floods where we live.
We're having a ton of rain, so of course the sump pump has to work overtime. Last night however it was running dry around 1 a.m. so John went over and when he came back he said he had fixed it.
I just woke up to a very wet kitten climbing on me. I woke John up, who said "I need my sleep, I'm going up to the couch" and left the basement. Leaving me to clean up everything. And no way to do it.
I have been crying my eyes out ever since. I just laid back down, there are wet cat footprints all over my sheet and blanket. There were two piles of kitten poop on the bed... I guess they couldn't figure out that they could still get to the litter box. At least my pillow is mostly dry. I honestly can't take much more of this, I just want out of here. And John said he doesn't understand what there is to be upset about and that I just need to calm down. He gets to go sleep on the couch for a few more hours and then get up and go to work today and doesn't have to do a thing to clean this all up... so of course its no big deal to him.
Right now I just want to give up, honestly the way I feel right now I just want to take the animals and go far away and never come back.
The deal is, we have a sump pump. It has turns on ok but doesn't shut itself off ever, so has to be manually shut off. John's dad gets angry if he hears it run dry for even a second so we've taken to just unplugging it at night and checking it every couple hours. Even when it hasn't rained for days, the basement still floods where we live.
We're having a ton of rain, so of course the sump pump has to work overtime. Last night however it was running dry around 1 a.m. so John went over and when he came back he said he had fixed it.
I just woke up to a very wet kitten climbing on me. I woke John up, who said "I need my sleep, I'm going up to the couch" and left the basement. Leaving me to clean up everything. And no way to do it.
I have been crying my eyes out ever since. I just laid back down, there are wet cat footprints all over my sheet and blanket. There were two piles of kitten poop on the bed... I guess they couldn't figure out that they could still get to the litter box. At least my pillow is mostly dry. I honestly can't take much more of this, I just want out of here. And John said he doesn't understand what there is to be upset about and that I just need to calm down. He gets to go sleep on the couch for a few more hours and then get up and go to work today and doesn't have to do a thing to clean this all up... so of course its no big deal to him.
Right now I just want to give up, honestly the way I feel right now I just want to take the animals and go far away and never come back.