Jericho: We're gonna drown.

They lied to us - and we were stupid enough to buy it.

Steph just called me down to the basement, there is water all over the floor. The walls are wet and water is pooling on the floor.

January, February and March are the rainy season here in the Pacific NW. It pretty much rains for nearly two months. Well, it drizzles and mists - there are grey clouds and water falling from the sky for sixty days. We had snow around Christmas, unusual for us, and a wet January. So, the ground is quite saturated. And now that moisture is an unwelcome guest, a guest that is not likely to leave until May.

When we looked at this house, we asked the owners if they had ever had any water problems. They said no. Obviously they lied. We planned to paint the basement walls and floor and garage floor before we moved in, and to apply a product called Dry-Lok to prevent the exact problems we are having right now. However, due to the problems of getting into the house, we didn't get the chance to do the painting we wanted to do. Now we will have to put up with the wet and do this paint work in June.

The nightmare continues. The money pit deepens. Kill me.