that's beat about the flooding. i used to live close enough to a creek to see what flooding does... but not close enough to actually experience any damage from it.
this one night we got 9" of rain in 3 hours... the creek went over the highway that it went under, and killed some guy in a nearby bar's parking lot.
sucks to hear that your basement got flooded. i hope cleanup goes easy. glad to see you're back on-line