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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]

Is it a new home OP?  Is it possible a subpar neighbor with a subpar house sabotaged a drain?  There is a well known case in Langley about this.

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Ha. No. Old house. 1950's. No new construction nearby. I remember seeing something about that, though....

I think what happened was the following:

- our gutters, while clean, got a little busted up with all of the frozen mess this winter, so they weren't diverting water quickly enough, and dripping down into the stairwell. Since the stairwell is completely open to the elements, it was also catching rain like a bucket setting outside would.
- there was more gunk (leaves, grass clippings, etc.) at the bottom of the stairs than there should have been (none) and more accumulated during the storm
- it rained a lot

We were here through the last hurricane scare and a couple other flooding events in the last 2 years, and this was the first time we had this quantity of water. We've had a little come in when the wind blew the rain towards the door, but never quite this much. We have French drains and two sump pumps (we have a crawl space which stayed dry)...only water coming in was at the door.[/quote]

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