Willmark:
Its been raining here quite hard in western NY, I live less than 2 miles south of Lake Ontario so it can get wet around here with all the run-off.
Friday night I step off the last step into the basement towards the man cave and sploosh! 5-6 inches of water in the basement. I build my house in 2011 so its not really that old, but for some reason the sump pump stopped.
I go over and tap it and 35 minutes later it drains the whole basement. Now, most all of my gaming stuff was off the floor and the rest was in plastic totes. All minis aside from a few were safe, and all terrain made it unscathed except for some forests.
The two biggest casualties gaming wise? My run of Dungeon Magazine #1 through 81… It took me years to get them. They were in a tote and all in plastic bags, but a double failure. Unbeknownst to me there was a crack in the bottom/small hole, water leaked up and got almost all of them wet. 
These are my most prized gaming possessions. I was able to save even the most water logged, now I would never have sold them but they when from very good to near mint to meh… double
The other casualty? All of my White Dwarf mags…
Fortunately upper 60s/low 70s today with a light breeze. So solar power and wind to dry them I left them to last knowing since they were printed on glossy paper for the most part they could go a few days till I could get to them. Here they all are getting a sun tan.
Lots of Dragon issues to dry out too, but most were in a plastic tote that didn’t leak.
Other major losses, two computers
Anyways basement is drying now, fans out dehumidifier humming, fortunately no crazy rain coming up anytime soon.
Willmark:
Good news is the White Dwarfs might pull through sans a few.
Grimstonefire:
You were lucky nobody thought it was a garden sale!
Willmark:
A few of the neighbors thought so…
zobo1942:
Ouch. That is a horrible loss. I regularly re-read ‘Dungeon’ and ‘Dragon’ magazines. I hope the rest dry out well!
Nicodemus:
Yikes!!! You must be gutted! That’s some serious work to have amassed all of those. I feel for ya! Lots a lot of my stuff ~15 years ago in a flooded basement, pretty much the same circumstances.
Abecedar:
Ouch. You could store it up high but then the roof would leak.
Bronze Bull:
Jeez, that’s awful. 
My condolences.
Zanthrax:
Sorry to hear bro
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Carcearion:
best of luck to you, those old dragon magazines have allot of great materiel in them (well I know they did back in the 2ed days at least), I hope they dry out well.
Jackswift:
Very sorry to hear. Hopefully a significant number are salvageable. I am familiar with flooded basement issues and they are never ever fun. I now have metal shelves that start 6 inches off the floor on which a majority of my gaming collection is stored… just in case…
Admiral:
Bloody awful. I hope you can save as much as possible. Would watertight storage boxes be worth investing in? Maybe even put in flameproof storage cabinets? Costly, though. Over the last years we’ve had members’ Chaos Dwarf collections flooded and burnt away in their houses, and now your magazines.
Malorndk:
A flooded basement is always a catastrophe, but if I understood you correctly, your painted minis survived? Most of your terrain survived? Isn’t that rather lucky, considering the scope of what the disaster could have been?
Willmark:
best of luck to you, those old dragon magazines have allot of great materiel in them (well I know they did back in the 2ed days at least), I hope they dry out well.
Carcearion
Indeed what I have in terms of the physical copies (i.e 1st and 2nd) along with the Dragon CD archive.
Very sorry to hear. Hopefully a significant number are salvageable. I am familiar with flooded basement issues and they are never ever fun. I now have metal shelves that start 6 inches off the floor on which a majority of my gaming collection is stored... just in case...
Jackswift
Every
Dungeon mag made it through, now just a tad worse for the wear.
Bloody awful. I hope you can save as much as possible. Would watertight storage boxes be worth investing in? Maybe even put in flameproof storage cabinets? Costly, though. Over the last years we've had members' Chaos Dwarf collections flooded and burnt away in their houses, and now your magazines.
Admiral
Don't know, as noted they were all in plastic sleeves and still got wet. Almost everything was up off the floor except the
Dungeon mags... But hole in the bottom of the plastic tote did them in...
A flooded basement is always a catastrophe, but if I understood you correctly, your painted minis survived? Most of your terrain survived? Isn't that rather lucky, considering the scope of what the disaster could have been?
Malorndk
Minis survived. they are up high on the shelves, a few in boxes on the floor got wet.
Two fried computers however. One is a goner, the other my Mac Mini is probably ok, ordered a new power supply. Forced to type this off my Win10 laptop, too lazy to go upstairs and use the iMac or get my work MacBook Pro.. First world problems right Willmark? :)
Fuggit Khan:
but for some reason the sump pump stopped.
Willmark
Forgive my ignorance (I'm from California), but what is a sump pump?
And sorry to hear about this, I can relate...I once had the fire sprinkler water pipe burst in my home, flooded the entire place.
Willmark:
No problem.
In deep(er) basements that are below the water table there is a hole called a crock about 2 1/2 deeper than the rest of the basement. The foundation and the slab flooring of the basement is designed to funnel water to this point. The sump pump is a small water (electrical pump) that kicks on regularly to drain the crock and hence keep the basement dry.
Near as I can tell the float on the inside of the pump got stuck in the down position resulting in the pump NOT kicking on.
Willmark:
Two weeks later.
Basement is now down to 40% humidity and dried out nicely.
On the gaming front I was able to salvage almost everything. Every Dungeon magazine made it through (some worse than others) but all usable. The White Dwarfs made it through reasonably well too; some a bit more beat up.
Minis all good but will have to do some forest pieces over that got destroyed.
If this every happens to you? Prioritize what needs to be saved first, what is most valuable, what can wait to dry later, etc. Sounds simple but some stuff can stay wetter longer as it were.
Final tally? Lost some older electronics but nothing that cant be replaced aside from my Mac G5 tower.
Nicodemus:
Thanks for the update!! Glad to hear it wasn’t as massive a loss as it might have been!
Stay dry!
~N
Abecedar:
Good to hear
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