1.   In several cases, basement walls and floors in downtown businesses buckled from the pressure.

2.   Also insulate exterior walls and if practical, basement walls and the areas above unheated basements and crawlspaces.

3.   And further damage is expected over the next few weeks as the remaining snow and ice continues to melt and seep through foundation cracks or joints in basement walls.

4.   And the resulting water trapped between the foundation and the outer ice is likely to penetrate cracks or joints in basement walls or windows, Coprio warned.

5.   As a result, when it rains water runs off toward the house and into cracks in the basement wall.

6.   Basement walls crumbling.

7.   Either way, you should really fix those cracks in the basement wall first.

8.   Fix cracked basement walls and leaky pipes.

9.   For houses with basements, another sign of serious trouble is basement walls that bow inward or lean.

10.   He had the head mounted, and it hangs on a basement wall, a bit worn but looking fierce as ever.