1.   Two homeowners fight with sandbags and pumps through the day, preventing more water from flooding their basements.

2.   Besides, how many people who have built their own cars have succeeded in flooding their basements?

3.   A freight tunnel running under the river collapsed, permitting water from the river to flood basements of many buildings in the Loop area.

4.   A French drain intercepts this water before it can flood the basement.

5.   Ceilings neared collapse, leaking pipes flooded the basement, and shoddy wiring posed a fire hazard.

6.   Combined with the growth of the suburbs, that means more deer-car collisions, more coyotes eating pets, and more beaver dams flooding basements.

7.   Four sprinklers had been set off, flooding the basement.

8.   If you know the water is coming down the outside of the foundation and flooding the basement, there are several ways you can divert it or prevent it.

9.   In the Rosedale section of Queens, the rainfall was persistent enough to flood basements and make streets difficult to navigate.

10.   Q. Shortly after we installed a new Berber carpet in our basement family room, a downspout overflowed in a heavy rain and flooded the basement.