Why today kind of sucked...

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My room sucks, I am very sore because earlier I just filled up and threw water out of a 5 gallon bucket a bunch of times so the window to my basement room didn't flood in very heavy downpour with no shoes or any kind of jacket stepping on jagged rocks and sharp sticks which I didn't notice at the time only thing I could think is 'I can't let my room flood!' but yeah normally I'd have terrible difficulty even lifting a bucket that size full of water let alone fill it up and throw the water out repeatedly. Basically one of my windows is sealed with caulking or whatever it is because the window well thing floods and if the water sits there too long it starts leaking through the window and then I get a nice little flood in my room...obviously something needs to be done about this, I was thinking either putting some type of very absorbant ground material where the water collects around there or plant something there that likes excessive water and my mom mentioned maybe sandbags. But yeah the window has a cover but the water comes in from the corner where water builds up and fills it quite fast if there's really heavy rain.

I just really don't want to have to do that again, though at least I got the water out before it got through the window...because it really would have sucked having to clean that up for an hour or longer like I've had to before, then again I wouldn't be so sore it hurts to move or even not move...I just feel like its a disaster waiting to happen, and well I keep all my things in my room and don't want everything I have ruined, thus far any time its leaked its only been in one corner of my room and gets behind my bed which is on wheels so I can pull it out on the cement floor so i just have had to mop that up but this time the window well was just about entirely full not just partially.

I guess i just wanted to vent even though typing is rather painful

I guess there's not another room you could use? That sounds awful. At least it didnt get in your room though. Maybe make sure the important stuff is raised off the floor just in case.

hope you get a good night's sleep, sweetleaf, and have a better tomorrow.

Not sure filling the window well up would help, the water isn't draining and putting something in there would just make it fill up faster around it. A lil sump pump of some sort would solve your problem, would drain the water out of your window well in just a few minutes no buckets needed.

No, no other rooms...but yeah I have a lot of important stuff away from that window, but it still worries me that if enough water got in it could still reach surge protectors I have on the ground and such because I the stuff plugged in only reaches so far....but if we can just stop it the window well from filling then I wouldn't have to worry.

I wasn't talking about filling the window well up....more like putting absorbant material near the window well, so there isn't so much water build up to start streaming into there. We just have gravely rocks there and water builds up and pours in through the corner of the window well. But maybe a pump sort of thing would work but then where would all the water go I guess redirecting it some way....but it would be best if it didn't flood in the first place.

Alright my bad, that might work. You'd be digging out and around the window well, the material around and under might be packed and full of dirt and such so it isn't draining and replacing it could fix it. Doing a quick google search, there might be a drainage pipe or something already in there that is blocked or backing up too. Honestly I dunno if I'd want to do that myself, things can be more complicated then you'd expect and it would be a lot of labor to put in yourself not to know for sure.

If your renting then I'd go with the pump for sure since it would be easy and there isn't any point of improving someone else's house anyways. You can connect a normal hose to them and divert the water wherever since it should pump out faster than it will fill up, there are automatic ones that pump whenever whenever water is present too. You could sell it too if you ever did leave.

I live at my moms house and will end up paying rent soon, but yeah I doubt I can fix the issue on my own so hopefully my mom and her boyfriend can help since its their house...not even sure what something like that would cost but hopefully that can just be included in my paying rent as soon as they raise my SSI amount to accomodate the paying of rent. But I'll look into various solutions for sure and try to figure something out for now though just have to figure out something temporary....there was a pile of logs by that window which weren't helping the issue so my mom and I moved those away.

But yeah thanks for the suggestions....I know my OP may have been kinda unclear.