My Wife, The Genius

As we continue to deal with our flooding basement, we had initially been using a wet/dry Shopvac to suck up the water. However, this was a never-ending job, as the water we removed was being replaced by more of the same as fast as we could empty the Shopvac.

Then, after a couple of hours of that, Vicki said, "I've got an idea. What if we got the submergible pump that we used to use to drain water off the pool cover, and set it on top of the wettest part of the carpet? We could run the hose from it into the laundry room sink, and it would do the rest."

I was initially skeptical that the water level would be sufficient for this to work, but holy crap! She was absolutely right! For the past hour, it's been running down there, with a steady stream of water coming out of the hose end into the sink. Basically we're just transferring the water that's flooding in directly from the floor to the sink, but automatically with no intervention by us. Freaking genius, that woman of mine!!