installment 1: in which our protaginist learns he must deal with raw sewage

long story short, or medium actually...last night i went downstairs to put in some laundry, and there were puddles and the carpet was kind of squishy. momentary panic, but the area around the hot water heaters was dry. it had rained out, and things seemed to be originating from near the outside wall, so i figure its just ground water seeping in. testing this theory, i find that it doesn't smell of anything but basement floor, and is only slightly soapy (considering that it had flowed under two washers, it is entirely possible it had picked up some laundry detergent). this morning however when i checked it with the upstairs neighbor (after three floors had gotten ready in the morning and had their um... morning constitutionals) the basement was downright stank. and the water was well icky. the third floor neighbor is going to take care of getting a plumber or rotorooter guy in to clean it out, but this still means that we are going to have to swab the whole basement with bleach (the furnace air intakes are also in the basement, so no stank can be tolerated). first off, it is going to be a rather unpleasant job because we must move 3 sets of washers and dryers to clean under them, and because after finishing washing the floor and walls that were wet with unspeakable things we have to wash the two rugs that were in the basement and are now soggy. I think the plan may be to get a trash barrel and mix up a big batch of bleach water. place it outside elevated high enough to get good pressure, and run a hose down into the basement siphoning from the barrel. hose down the entire basement, maybe scrub it with a push broom, and vac up the excess water with two shop vacs (maybe fitted to pull to an auxiliary tank rigged out of a third metal trash barrel). this may make the job less icky, but will still be annoying. thank god for latex gloves though, i plan to swipe a box or twelve from the lab today. should guarantee a fun weekend if nothing else.that was actually pretty long instead of medium wasn't it. well tough. if i have to clean up poop, you can damn well read about it for a little while.