# Pool crashed into basement. How do we fix this? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 10, 2014, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230 "2014-08-10T12:05:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Nickel\_Please](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b19c9b/32.png) [@Nickel\_Please](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nickel_Please)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/101 "2014-08-21T22:58:45Z")
Update: Cracks have appeared in random places. We decided that the house is unsafe to stay in, for now. The fraternity house has been evaporated! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/102 "2014-08-21T23:07:36Z")
> [@Nickel\_Please](#): > > Update: > > Cracks have appeared in random places. **We decided that the house is unsafe to stay in** , for now. The fraternity house has been evaporated! No shit. Whatever gave you that idea? _re-reads post_ “For now??!” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/103 "2014-08-21T23:19:59Z")
Evaporated! Awesome!!! ---
**Author:** ![Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluffy_PickleSniffer)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/104 "2014-08-21T23:21:36Z")
> [@Nickel\_Please](#): > > Update: > > Cracks have appeared in random places. We decided that the house is unsafe to stay in, for now. The fraternity house has been evaporated! So… was there a lot of steam rolling around when that house evaporated? ---
**Author:** ![Nickel\_Please](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b19c9b/32.png) [@Nickel\_Please](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nickel_Please)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/105 "2014-08-22T00:02:46Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > No shit. Whatever gave you that idea? > > _re-reads post_ > > “For now??!” :eek: Yes, and it won’t be safe until we have someone look at it. > [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](#): > > So… was there a lot of steam rolling around when that house evaporated? Sorry, sometimes my spell check goes crazy. “Evacuated” ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/106 "2014-08-22T00:07:05Z")
You waited a week and a half to leave the building? The mind boggles. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/107 "2014-08-22T00:20:58Z")
No pics and the only mention of damage is “cracks.” Riiiight. Nothing about the thousands of gallons of displaced water. And they are simply walking away. Riiiiight. :rolleyes: Don’t believe a word of this. It didn’t happen and we just got played, people. ---
**Author:** ![Nickel\_Please](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b19c9b/32.png) [@Nickel\_Please](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nickel_Please)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/108 "2014-08-22T00:26:02Z")
> [@chiroptera](#): > > No pics and the only mention of damage is “cracks.” Riiiight. Nothing about the thousands of gallons of displaced water. And they are simply walking away. Riiiiight. :rolleyes: > > Don’t believe a word of this. It didn’t happen and we just got played, people. Yeah there was some water in the basement. Most of it drained though. But a small flood in a basement is totally secondary to a freaking hole in the fraternity house! There’s no way in he’ll I would post pictures. The wrong person might see it. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/109 "2014-08-22T00:29:15Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > You waited a week and a half to leave the building? The mind boggles. The beer ran out. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/110 "2014-08-22T00:37:12Z")
The only way the OP could have been better is if it had been concluded with, “My friend wants to know.” ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/111 "2014-08-22T00:42:58Z")
> [@Nickel\_Please](#): > > Yeah there was some water in the basement. Most of it drained though. But a small flood in a basement is totally secondary to a freaking hole in the fraternity house! > > There’s no way in he’ll I would post pictures. The wrong person might see it. Where did the water drain to? Do you have a drain/sump pump in the basement or did it go thru a crack in the basement floor, possibly undermining what the foundation is sitting on? Is it possible for you stand at the front door or one of the windows such that you can take a picture of the interior w/o any identifying details, like the greek letters of your fraternity that are probably hanging on at least one wall? What’s the plan for all of the guys that _were_ planning on living there as the fall semester should be starting any day now? It’s a helluva good story but most of us think it’s just that, a story. Give us a pic or a link to a news story & we’ll be much more sympathetic in helping you out. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/112 "2014-08-22T01:20:28Z")
> [@Nickel\_Please](#): > > Yeah there was some water in the basement. Most of it drained though. But a small flood in a basement is totally secondary to a freaking hole in the fraternity house! > > There’s no way in he’ll I would post pictures. The wrong person might see it. Right. Because flooded basements drain “through” and “small” basement floods are no big deal and “totally secondary”. Right. :rolleyes: You are lying and a lying liar and IMHO all your posts are complete lies. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/113 "2014-08-22T01:37:49Z")
Seriously, am I the only person in the world with a drain in their basement floor? I’m not saying the story’s real, but that the water drained ain’t the suspicious part. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/114 "2014-08-22T01:46:42Z")
> [@chiroptera](#): > > It didn’t happen Tru dat… > [@](#): > > and we just got played, people. …but I missed this part. It wasn’t like I was a lone skeptical voice saying, “great story, but definitely fiction.” If there was any real point of contention, it was about whether it was all that great a story. But the consensus was nearly unanimous about the ‘fiction’ part. Even those people giving advice were more ‘on the off-chance that it’s real,’ or ‘the OP would have done most of these things already if he weren’t BSing us’ than ‘the OP needs my advice, stat.’ ---
**Author:** ![Nickel\_Please](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b19c9b/32.png) [@Nickel\_Please](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nickel_Please)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/115 "2014-08-22T01:56:07Z")
Guys, seriously, let’s be respectful. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/116 "2014-08-22T02:00:48Z")
> [@Nickel\_Please](#): > > Guys, seriously, let’s be respectful. > > :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: Why? You’re an adult who’s setting a really shitty example for the college kids who you’re “advising”. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/117 "2014-08-22T02:16:54Z")
**Nickel** , a question, if you please. Who actually owns this house? Is it the college, or your fraternity chapter? Who is going to pay for the repairs? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/118 "2014-08-22T02:17:00Z")
> [@Nickel\_Please](#): > > Yes, and it won’t be safe until we have someone look at it. Uh, no. It won’t be safe until the proper repairs are made. ---
**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/119 "2014-08-22T02:36:31Z")
> [@Nickel\_Please](#): > > Guys, seriously, let’s be respectful. > > :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: The most respectful possible option is that it’s fiction… ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/120 "2014-08-22T02:43:48Z")
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