Oh, Phil!  I can just imagine that basement!

I didn't go to work yesterday because, while the roads were not that bad,
the sidewalks were, especially at 6:00 a.m.  It's amazing how much has
melted already.

JulieMelton
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 10:50 PM
Subject: Colorado Snow


> I know how worried most of you have been about us living out here in
> Colorado with this big statewide snow storm we had so I will confirm that
> we
> are all safe and well.  We have about a foot of snow is all in our yard
> but
> the high winds created a lot of drifting.  Tomorrow they say it will be
> mid
> to upper fifties.  Today it was already in the forties.  Wednesday it will
> be in the sixties and by Thursday and Friday, it may hit 75 degrees.  We
> might have thunder storms Friday and over the weekend but they always say
> that this time of year because they can't figure out if it is winter or
> summer during April in Colorado.  Our basement leaked again due to the
> fast
> melting of the snow.  We dug our basement wall out once about three years
> ago and patched the leak area, but we got new gutters recently, when we
> got
> our new siding, and they did not, for some unknown reason, put extensions
> on
> the down spouts to keep the run off moving away from the foundation.  We
> have a small hill on one side of our house and the run off just runs like
> a
> river down into that area and collects.  We need at least one French drain
> put in and longer gutter extensions to keep the water away from the house.
> No, you can't swim in the basement but it sure makes a mess to clean up.
> Normally we check it and catch it before it gets bad but this time we
> forgot
> until our grandson mentioned the water in their basement apartment and
> then
> it hit me what I had forgotten.
>
> Phil.
>