↳ In-reply-to » The river upstream kissed the hundred-year flood level (462 cm) the other day. https://www.hvz.baden-wuerttemberg.de/pegel.html?id=00265 (To me that link looks broken, but maybe it works on other browsers. :-?)

@prologic@twtxt.net It was not the river water, but the rain water that found its way into the basement. It rained for a few days straight. So the ground was completely saturated at one point in time. Sunday to Monday night there was a ton of more really heavy rain, new water could not sink down anymore, so it leaked through the tight hole where the cables enter the house in the basement. That’s roughly a meter above the basement floor. A tiny, tiny bit of fine sand accumulated on the floor beneath the hole.

I didn’t even know that water can get through that hole in the wall, looks completely sealed to me. But as we learned, it is not sealed enough. I didn’t see it flowing in, I just noticed the standing water on Monday morning.