Glad to hear your basement was still dry. Only time I had a flooded basement was back in 1999 with hurricane Floyd. It was downgraded to a tropical storm but still caused some havoc with the stream/brook down the street. It overflowed and then the water went under the train bridge and down my street. There was enough water that you could paddle a canoe on my side of the block. My basement took about 1.5 feet of water. A little before that, I decided to shutdown the power main to the house in case it kept on going up. I fixed a crack in the wall on the basement back door since then. So it no longer floods like that. I also have never seen a flood like that and hope I never will again. We do pay flood insurance so it came in handy back then.