Flooding, YAY!!! NOT!!!

We had a pretty bad snow storm 2 days be fore Christmas and a good majority of the townhomes/houses in our area have flooding issues. Well we hadn't ever experienced "weather" flooding. Only just Mathew leaving the hose in the window well while we left the house for over 10 hrs. ;)  Anyway, we were doing stuff all day (I might have gone to work) and when we finally sat down to relax before bed, we noticed wet spots in various but random spots on the carpet that was wet or damp. So I walked over to 1 of the 2 window wells in the basement and noticed about 2-3 inches of standing water above the tree bark filler whatever you call it and the carpet below the window well was SOAKED! So, I called my father..the landlord ;) to inform him of the water, checked the furnace room and there was water in there, vacuumed (with a wet vac) the water out of the window well, til I started sucking up tree bark and gravel. My father came over the next morning and we lifted up the carpet and noticed that ALL of our "Spill guard carpet pad" was SOAKED so we lifted all that up too and had to use my carpet cleaner to soak up the water out of the pad so we could lift it out of the house. otherwise, its super heavy. Anyway once we got the carpet and pad up, we noticed cracks in the ground starting in the furnace room and going out into the family room and all over from there.

We took the carpet out to the garage and laid it all out and put the pad out in the garage too. Anyway, there is currently a litigation going on about the flooding issues in these homes so a guy came to look at the damage and the cracks and he had a tool, and was banging around down stairs and from his banging, he discovered that a big area in our basement is hollow and the rest is solid.. he then said "i wonder how deep this hole is?!" oh, awesome (as my chair sits right on top of this hollow area). Anyway, since this big flood, we have only had minimal leaking just a couple days after this big one and so far nothing since... anyway, here are some pics:

 Water in the furnace room

 wet carpet

I didnt get a pic of the cracked ground before we set the basement back up, pad and carpet-less :( its freezing cold down there and since our bed was in that corner at the top of  this pic, we moved our bed and MaKaylie back into the master room and Austin went back to his old room (MaKaylie was originally going to have her own room) so a couple weeks later, we moved upstairs and this is what it looks like now:

all fits perfectly :) I must admit it is really different having MaKaylie in here. I havent had a baby share my room with me, past 6 months and she just turned 7 months.

Well, now my husband has hounded me enough about going to bed, so I guess I'm off to bed so he will stop nagging ;)