bad, badder, but could be much worse

[rmd]

bad: looks like the sump pump in my basement failed or wedged. when i toggle it, the motor hums but does not pump.

badder: at some point with the rain a while back, the water got high enough to damage a bunch of claudia's lowest shelf of boxes, many of which were full of books.

could be much worse: we figured the pump failure out tonight, and not AFTER earl dumped a bunch of rain on us.

Comments

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

I read this initially as "bad bladder" and indeed found that it certainly could have been worse! :)

It sounds like people would be wise in the Boston area to only put things in sealable plastic on the lower portions of the basement storage areas...

Either that or make amusing stilt structures!