I was worried about our trees this morning, but now the snow seems to be melting/dropping off w/o breaking branches. It's raining, we'll have to see if it ices that will be worse than the snow.

This weather is crazy. We've had early summer like conditions! Everything is blooming right now. We had some light rain the past two days, but it's warm out still. Another El Nino year in the PNW.

I hope those of you with all the snow aren't suffering too badly!

I am so done with it already- early dismissal for school today in NJ, and I bet they'll be closed tomorrow. Scrambling now to find childcare because I have to work, and hospitals don't close in snowstorms.

It looks pretty, but really...I've had enough!

Just rain today - about a foot of heavy wet snow yesterday. School today, but who knows about tomorrow since there's supposed to be another storm moving in, I don't know if we'll have rain, snow, or ice tonight.

My parents have been calling every day from FL to find out how much snow we got, and what the temperature is! My mom is coming back Monday, i told her just to chill out ;-) and enjoy the warm weather, we have no idea what's happening over the w/e but I'm sure I will be able to pick her up and get her to her house. Just as long as my uncle plows her driveway.

Well, my kid nearly drove me crazy yesterday. She wanted to be a school so badly. I guess I should count my blessings.

By the afternoon, it started to rain and we had a window well back up and dump a couple gallons of water into the basement. Builder's rep is supposed to come over and look at the whole situation. The window looks out of square, the seal leaks and the grading next to the house is not right. Perfect storm.

I did go out and brush as much snow off my trees as possible in the morning yesterday. My birches bounced right back. I even went up and down my street and "swept" the trees that were the most bent over. We live in a new development and we need those baby street trees to survive and look good.

Gosh I am so glad my snow shoveling days are over. And now I hear we are going to get snow in Alabama, but it won't be much hopefully.

I do worry about people in Philly and Baltimore, my goodness, enough.

...Jane

By 9pm last night, I was bailing at a rate of about 12 gallons an hour. So much for a new house.

Amy, so sorry to hear of your water problems. How soon will someone be out to correct the problem? Does it seem to be a simple fix?

Hey Mona,

I have two window wells and on one of them, they did not use the "adhesive" on both sides. We could see the water streaming into that side through the gap. I think it was a combination of torrential rain and snow melt.

They will try to get some kind of caulk in there in the next few days, but while everything is so wet, I don't know how successful they will be. In the spring, they'll dig the whole thing up and start over, regrade, etc.

We're on top of a hill here, but the soil is clay and has not been cultivated in decades, so there are drainage issues. I fell into a sink hole last year! I wasn't hurt badly and I got several truckloads of topsoil and compost delivered by the builder out of the deal. Not bad in my book. :-D

The other side of the house is settling as well and the AC is sagging a bit. Just noticed it last night. I think it may take a few more seasons of freezing and thawing and filling in as the earth settles to get this fully resolved. It seems to be the way things are in New England. I am a bit freaked out...my husband is unusually cool as a cucumber. He's seen much worse in his years up here!

It's still better than sitting at 8 feet elevation, one house from the Bay during hurricane season, though!

Oh my Amy! I hope you didn't have anything stored down there that got ruined. Have them check the foundation while they're at it - you don't have any large cracks do you? Since you said house is settling and AC (outdoor unit on pad?) is sagging. Do you have wall and ceiling cracks? How old is the house? 2yrs?

Our foundation is leaking (just seeping) around the penetration for the septic. I checked the other penetrations (for water and geothermal) yesterday, they seemed OK. DH started the dehumidifier in the basement last night.

We had water coming in like you did our first spring (2008) here - the geothermal contractor or the subcontractor who ran the geothermal lines from the wells (can't figure out who) knocked all the packing or whatever out of the penetrations when they connected the pipes, didn't seal back around them, our first big rainstorm (we didn't have gutters yet) everything was pooling under the front porch (built before final grading) and water was just gushing in! The well contractor (who had drilled the holes) came and filled them with "Good Stuff" - not pretty, but it works!

Amy, did the water problem get fixed?

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