Heavy rain and backed-up storm drain water, possibly because the county just changed a drain culvert down the road from our house and installed a somewhat smaller one than has been there for the past 30 years. We've had close calls before, but this time the runoff water got into half the house!
Jerry

"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!