This saturday the Copenhagen area was hit by what appears to be the heaviest rainfall in more than 100 years. Actually for

as long as measurements have been

made in Denmark. 150mm of rain in just over 2 hours. That’s more than twice as much as we usually get in 2 months at this time of the year. We also had some serious thunder and lightning. According to the Danish Meteorological Institute more than 18000 lightnings hit denmark on saturday.

When we first cialis how it works looked at the house, before buying it, there had actually been a similar rainfall, although not as heavy, the day before. And when we looked at the basement we very relieved to see that the rainfall had not flooded the basement. But apparently this time around the water was simply to much for the sewer system. I was actually working a little on the buy generic cialis wiring for the module and my girlfriend was tucking in our daughter for the night on the first floor, when suddenly I heard this strange bubbling sound coming from the toilet in the basement. When I went to look at it the toilet was actually bubbling as if air was being pressed through

the sewer. And then suddenly it stopped. For one minute there was nothing and then suddenly water came up through the drain in the bath room floor. At first a little but then heavier. Unfortunately the only other drain in the basement was in the model railroad room, and

a few seconds later the cover gnc viagra alternative on the drain in there popped up.

For half an hour the water simply flooded the basement leaving between 10 and 20 cm of water all over.

After half an hour it started to retreat again but unfortunately

the leveling of the basement floor was less than optimal and a lot of water was left in the basement. Luckily we had a pump buy viagra professional and was able to get all of

the water out again. But

a lot of our things in the basement was ruined by the water.

Luckily the modules didn’t suffer any damage. I was close to loosing my entire stock of Bemo cars and engines but managed to save them in the last minute. The only model railroad related item that didn’t avoid the water was my Lenz LZV100, the transformer and the LI-USB. I don’t know how water resistant they are but I really don’t feel like plugging them in to see for my self. The risk of burning

something in the computer when I plug in the LI-USB is simply to big. So hopefully the insurance will cover it.

Other than that a few other items got damaged, some clothes, some of my daughters packed away toys etc. But all in all we could have been much worse off. The worst thing is cleaning up after all that sewage. The basement is really damp and I’m pretty sure some reconstruction of the walls need to happen. The previous owner installed a sauna in the basement and the wood in that definitely sucked up some water. And as most other walls are covered with plaster board they probably need changing too. Again the insurance will cover all this but it just takes some time before the basement will be back to normal. So my hopes of finishing the wiring on my modules will not come through. It will probably take a month or 2 before the basement is operational again.

So, have a nice summer and I’ll be back with an update in the fall. Unless I get the time to start building the station house. I don’t need the basement for that.

Btw. check out these youtube clips for some videos of the rainfall. I know it’s not a tropical storm but this is

definitely not normal weather in Copenhagen.