Slippery When Wet!!

Well we had a interesting day this past Monday to say the least. Sunday night we got rained on like crazy, I mean it really poured. I don't think I got a full hour of sleep Sunday night bc of the rain coming down and the wind going like crazy.
We both woke up not feeling our best and seeing that the weather was still really bad outside we decided to stay at home. I could work from home so it wouldn't be a problem, Christina on the other hand does not have the capabilities to do that so she wasn't able to do any work. We had lost power that morning probably around 1am bc I could tell that our ceiling fan in the bedroom wasn't on and I knew the power was off, like a sixth sense or something.
I was able to call my mom at about 7 am Monday morning and see if she had lost her power too, which in fact she did. She also informed me that their basement was flooded with about 2 inches of water covering the entire floor. I was a little bit worried bc they have a brand new house and brand new houses are not supposed to have leaky basements.
Right after I got off the phone with her I was getting ready to go over and help clean up I asked Christina to go downstairs in check our basement. I knew it wasn't good when she came back up and had tears in her eyes. She said ours was flooding pretty fast as well.
Here's the thing, we had two Sump Pumps installed and our entire perimeter of our basement dug up the day we moved into our house over a year ago so there would be no more leaking problems. It held up great so far, no leaks what so ever.
Here's the problem, we never bought a battery backup for the sump pumps so when the power went out the pumps just filled with water and we have our own Water Park in our basement. Once Christina said that the basement was flooding I threw on some shoes and ran downstairs bc we have all of Jennifer's furniture she bought for her new house in NC just sitting in boxes down there. I was able to find a small cement island of dry land in the middle and I moved everything I could of hers onto it. Let me tell you furniture gets VERY HEAVY once it is water logged.
I was able to move most of the stuff that wasn't wet already over and Jennifer came down and we were able to clean up the rest as best we could. We were able to get the basement halfway dry and take a few mins for a breather.
Our power did not come back on until around 12:30 p.m. that day, so imagine almost 12hrs of no power with two pregnant ladies and me. We all were pretty calm once the water was controlled.
Once our power came back on I went back down to the basement to check on our sump pumps. We were able to borrow a wet vac from our neighbors to help suck up some of the water when we heard a pipe burst.
I look over and see that one of the sump pumps that is under our stairs has water shooting out of it everywhere and an extremely fast rate. I run over to it to see what happened and see that a pipe got disconnected it looked like. We then shut off the power to the pump and called the company that installed them.
Even though we shut off the power to the pump water was still coming over pretty fast and within 30 mins our entire basement would of been about covered in 2+ inches of water. We called the company that installed the pumps and had them tell me what to do in order to stop the water.
While I was on the phone with the tech, my cell phone decided to jump from my ear into the water barrel where the sump is. I was just speechless, literally. I was able to get the pump connected to the valve again and the water stopped.
We fished out my cell phone and Christina was able to dry it out. It looks like I'll just need to get a new battery for it.

Well after the sump pump predicament I hadn't even had a lot of time to go over and help my mom out.
I go over and see that she still had a decent amount of water in her basement. I spent a couple of hours cleaning it up as best I could then we had a nice surprise. Two members from our church heard about what happened and came over to help out. Charlie and Mike are awesome, they helped move out two carpets that were in my parents basement and Mike brought over his heavy duty shop vac which cleaned up the floors nicely. They said they are going to run a couple of errands and they'll be back. It was about 9 o'clock at night and went back over to our house to eat dinner. Wouldn't you know that the Hunters, a family from our church, come over with one of their humidifiers. It was extremely nice of them to do that and we were very happy to see them.

At about 9:30 or so Mike and Charlie came back with more humidifiers for both of our house and a giant fan. Again, they went above and beyond to help others out, we are so lucky to be involved in a church family like that.

So it has been about almost 2 days since the flooding and both basements are drying up great and the humidifiers are really helping out the smell. My parents are still looking finding out if they any sort of flood insurance and all that fun stuff. Our basement is a mess, so hopefully in the next few days once we have some free time I'll be able to straighten and organize it again bc we have to finish moving Jennifer out of Abby's room and into the guest room soon bc the days a chopping away fast.