Ouch. Sorry about the flooding. Happened to a friend of mine once. He had a huge, maybe 13 foot deep basement and it was flooded up to the top of the stairs. If I was him, I would've gone swimming in it.

Oh hey, I plugged you to warren_ellis, as he was mentioning a story he started to write about a girl who had no heart but was looking for one. He never finished his version.