Water everywhere!

Our weather has been so crazy lately . . . early last week it was in the single digits and low teens, but by Friday it was raining in the upper 40's melting all the snow drifts, but not the ground itself. Friday afternoon Zander went downstairs to get something only to come upstairs saying "I can't get it. There is water everywhere." Of course I was curious what he meant so downstairs I went. Sure enough, there was water everywhere. After some inspection I found that the east window well was full of water and was spilling into the basement. There was an inch of standing water in the play room, storage room, part of the dirt room, and 3/4 of the big boys' room was soaked. UGH. The boys grabbed the shop vac and vacuumed out the window well while I called insurance. Unfortunately insurance wouldn't cover the mess because it had come from outside, so we were responsible for the clean up. Zander and Mckay thought it was so fun to have water in the basement. They were splashing around in it like it was a rain puddle. The boys and I began the work of vacuuming up the water. Matt picked up some big air movers on his way home from work. It took about 3 hours of vacuuming to get the water up. We have had fans blowing on it since Friday night and thankfully everything is drying out and it appears that there will be no permanent damage.