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From: songbird <songbird@anthive.com>
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Subject: Re: Corned Beef Brisket (and a mild rant)
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 19:03:36 -0400
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Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> songbird wrote:
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>>   we don't have a lot of space for extras.  
>
> Basement.  The builder of this house went to a lot of trouble
> in 1947 to dig a basement.  It was so much trouble, he put
> a crawlspace under the living and dining rooms.  But the
> three bedrooms, bathroom, and kitchen are over a basement.
>
> My previous house had no basement.  That was an absolute
> must-have when I bought this house.

  not when you live in an area that used to be a swamp.
a deep basement here would be pumping water continually.
there is a crawlspace here, but it is not convenient at
all to use for storage.  i've often had fantasies of
lifting this house up and rotating it 180 degrees but
that is very much not going to happen.  i'd be much
better off just building a small garage to the SW and
call that good enough, but then we'd have a much
different view and bleh...

  our current elevation is at grade or slightly below
so that when it rains enough the sump pump will run for
a while but when the rains stop eventually so will the
sump pump.  i wish they had put the drains above grade
and built it up just a little bit more as that would
have saved quite a bit of wasted energy in pumping
water that could have flowed by gravity.  the house
itself is above flash flood stage enough that it isn't
in any kind of danger other than if we had a huge
amount of rain fall in a very tiny area pretty much all
at once.  we've only had anything close to interesting
for floods once in 30yrs.

  https://www.anthive.com/project/water/#chapter-7


  songbird