Well, the day started with a flooded basement and ended with a tornado warning. In between we installed a new sump pump and dried out half a dozen sopping wet Boy Scout troop sleeping bags. Tips for surviving a wet basement: Pack totes so that they won't overturn if they float off. Don't store them under anything else; if they can't float free, they'll overturn. Don't stack them; they'll overturn. Never put up on single 8" concrete blocks what can be put up on TWO 8" concrete blocks.
@dillyd Oh, yeah, this happens fairly regularly. We've been here since 1989. My husband got careless with his Boy Scout troop supplies, that's all.
I should point out that the contents of overturned totes generally get sucked into a sump pump when the power turns back on. And that wet tissue paper is heavy enough to crush rare German glass Xmas ornaments. We learned that the first year we flooded.