Phil,

I'm praying for your bacement. Some times it takes long down spouts to keep
the water away from the house. We have the same problem here, with trying
to keep the water away from the house, but we don't have a wet bacement. We
really had that problem in Manchester.

You guys always get a big snow storm in the spring! <grin> I wonder if that
snow is very squeezable? lol.

Love,
Pat Ferguson
At 11:50 PM 4/11/05, you wrote:
>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.