May 7th, 2008
#502 - 1990
Our basement flooded a number of times during my childhood. It always resulted in a strange mix of lost and found. Many things would be “lost” in the sense that they were damaged and had to be tossed out. But strangely there would always be things that were “found.” Misplaced objects or toys would be discovered undamaged amongst the soggy mess. As a kid I didn’t store any of my personal belongings down there so I always came out ahead at the end of the cleanup.
May 7th, 2008 at 12:04 am
I used to live in a place where it was the first floor which flooded, not the basement… It was more than inconvenient at times.
May 7th, 2008 at 12:11 am
If I ever have to worry about flooding build an ark.
May 7th, 2008 at 12:30 am
My basement has only flooded once, when a pipe burst. It really sucked, too, ’cause our basement is completely finished.
May 7th, 2008 at 12:34 am
What 1990 flood are you referring to? Shadyside? Somewhere in Canada that Google doesn’t seem to care about?
Incidentally, it really is amazing that Biff manages to turn the most mundane tasks into life-threatening mishaps (to mortals, anyway), but can squeeze natural disaster lemons into elegant, ironic lemonade.
May 7th, 2008 at 12:58 am
Unless something freakish happens here, I don’t think it’ll ever flood. I live a considerable height above Lake Ontario, and the Rouge Valley is practically next door. The water wouldn’t get more than a foot deep before it ran downhill.
Plus, I live in an above-ground apartment
The Duck Has Spoken.
May 7th, 2008 at 1:02 am
J.R., your comment deserves to kept in a Quote Hall of Fame.
May 7th, 2008 at 1:30 am
I have flooded our basement once, just forgot to turn off water on the garden and the rest was matter of the slopes, leading right into the basement window. It took us whole day to get rid of all the water. But surprisingly enough, some lost items became found and basement was nice and clean after that, so this is a good way to either clean up your basement or to discover anything misplaced.
May 7th, 2008 at 1:37 am
J.R.: When you get cut in half as many times as Biff does, its not hard to turn hurricanes into lemonade.
May 7th, 2008 at 2:32 am
those tennis balls look to be higher than usual from the water. good comic though
May 7th, 2008 at 3:37 am
4th floor of a HDB flat
If it floods, i’m in trouble X_X
May 7th, 2008 at 4:20 am
@Jake:
Knowing Biff, he probably filled the tennis balls with something like pure hydrogen or Flubber or the Strange Matter equivalent of helium.
May 7th, 2008 at 5:00 am
I don’t even HAVE a basement…
May 7th, 2008 at 6:36 am
Flooding retrieves all manner of things… Tennis balls, old pill bottles, empty soda cans, spiders…
Yeah, we’ve been flooded.
May 7th, 2008 at 6:55 am
That reminds me of the Mythbusters episode where they used ping pong balls to raise a sunken ship.
May 7th, 2008 at 7:06 am
are you talking about the flood in Fort Madison? thats the only flood I know about
and the closest it came from flooding was up to the back porch the basement was dry as a dirt
May 7th, 2008 at 7:14 am
I used to live in West Virginia, and the next town over flooded over so often that the local supermarket had a canoe on the roof to get people home if it happened while people were shopping.
May 7th, 2008 at 7:19 am
@J.R. - It’s a brand new record for 1990.
May 7th, 2008 at 7:34 am
My basement flooded once. Apparently something went wrong with the toilet, as it started spewing water. Luckily, the toilet was empty at the time.
May 7th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Awesome. I can picture Biff sitting around patiently for months just waiting for a flood.
May 7th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Ugh.. Where I live now, the basement basically put, semi-floods at least once a week… No better way to ruin a good day than to have to get the water vac out to go through a muck of toliet paper scraps and Lord knows what else.
May 7th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
I remember on April 15th 2007 (Tax day) we had a HUGE rainstorm and we got at least 5 inches of water in our basement. There were naighbors who said they got 5 feet, so I guess we were lucky.
May 7th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
The advertisement below this text box is quite flashy in a few manners of speech.
It’s flashing pink and black and is inquiring as to whether or not my love is cheating on me.
And then there are two silhouettes of strippers.
How pleasant!
And regarding basement floods;
we didn’t realize the idiocy of putting valuable paper documents in the basement until the basement became a pond.
Whoopsies.
I guess those things happen.
May 7th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
@Jayne Squared - Sorry about the ad. Nothing like that should be getting through. I found the annoying sparkly one from the other day and blocked it but I can’t find the one you are describing.
May 7th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
People find long lost possessions by flooding their basements? I think I should really get around to doing that… but I have too many electronics down there, so oh well.
May 7th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
@Chris - The new site is better in some ways but also worse in others. Like how do I find a comic only by the number?
May 7th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
@no name - Hey good point! I just added a search box at the bottom of the right column. Now finding a comic by the number is a snap!
May 7th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
I think this is one of my favorite Biffs. Not really sure why. XD I just like how Biff looks.
May 7th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Awesome. It feels so weird having influence on the site like that!
May 7th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
@no name - What color should Biff’s shirt be tomorrow?
May 7th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
@Chris - lol. thanks, but I’m not the person to decide that.
May 7th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Biff should have a shirt that clashes with everything. Not for tomorrow, just on general principle.
May 7th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Haha the ad at the bottom of the page for me is for water damage and flood repair!
May 8th, 2008 at 8:43 am
Seems to me that the tennis balls don’t appreciate Biff losing them in the first place, and now that they’re at his head level they’re going to do something about it.