The Bad Thing About Rain

I think that we are being compelled to be humble. As if a torn apart kitchen is not difficult enough to maintain some normalcy, we noticed some really wet blankets behind the couch in the basement last night when Clay went to get some extra blankets so that he could prop himself up while he sleeps so that his coughing/bordering on bronchitis/ would not bother him so much. When we bought the house the owners had mentioned some flooding problems they had when the neighbor used to flood irrigate his field. {he doesn't anymore} This would cause the water table to rise to an unmanageable level, and their basement would flood. It didn't even occur to me that the large amount of rain would cause the same thing to happen. But it did. Now the kitchen is all but gone and our basement is completely useless. We're going to have to take out the pad {we really don't want mold problems} and we're looking for something other than carpet to replace the flooring. We need something that can handle water if it happens again. {and I think we'd be safe to say that it will} The "funny" thing is that the water is in completely different places than the last flood we had, so we'll be replacing literally all of the flooring in our basement. I don't know if we can afford to keep up with the weather!