(Not so) Dry Well

A few years back, Ken woke up one morning to find our basement flooded caused by a backed up dry well in the backyard. He cleaned it out and we've been fine ever since.

Except for Monday night when we had a ton of rain and Ken saw some water coming in through the basement. He ran outside to see the gutter leaders backed up and spilling water next to the foudation. Ken unhooked the leaders from the drywell and came back in to clean up the water. We caught it just in time. (i.e. before it flooded our entire basement -- we are very psyched the painted concrete floor is ok with water -- unlike the laminate flooring we were thinking of putting in). Insert sigh of relief here.

Ken dug a giant hole in the backyard yesterday and is installing a trap with cleanout tonight -- so we don't have this problem again in another 4 years. A pain, but worth it.