{"id":2338,"date":"2013-04-19T15:02:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T20:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.146.49.248\/?p=2338"},"modified":"2025-08-28T14:56:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:56:05","slug":"april-showers-bring-wet-basements-let-the-lock-up-help-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/april-showers-bring-wet-basements-let-the-lock-up-help-you\/","title":{"rendered":"April Showers Bring Wet Basements &#8211; Let The Lock Up Help You"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">How The Lock Up Can Protect Your Belongings from Springtime Flooding<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>April showers bring May flowers, but in the meantime, they also bring basement flooding for many. There\u2019s nothing worse than storing away invaluable items down in your basement only to find them in a miserable condition when you go to look at them because of mold and dampness. If you know that your basement is prone to seepage or flooding during heavy rains, maybe it\u2019s time to investigate securing a Lock Up Self Storage unit for all the stuff that you store in your basement.<\/p>\n<p>When prolonged and heavy rains occur, the land around your home gets saturated with water. Water is amazingly adept at finding places to go when it has to, and cracks in your basement are a prime candidate. When this happens, rivulets of water will wind their ways around anything sitting on the floor in your basement. If the rains are heavy enough to overwhelm your city\u2019s sewage system, you could end up with water backing up through your pipes too. This could cause inches or even feet of water that flood your basement and completely ruin your belongings. With all of the intense weather systems that have been occurring, entrusting your valued personal belongings to a climate controlled Lock Up self storage unit could save you from future heartbreak.<\/p>\n<p>The Lock Up Self Storage has the perfect sized unit to suit your storage needs. A 5\u2019x5\u2019 unit would be perfect to store all of your family pictures, important papers, your kids\u2019 drawings, and even some of the vintage furniture you inherited from your great aunt that you\u2019ve been meaning to reupholster. Storing all of these kinds of items in a climate controlled unit will ensure that they will be kept in an environment that will remain in optimal and steady temperature and moisture levels. These conditions will protect your items and save you from losing priceless family heirlooms in the process. And if you need more space, The Lock Up has got you covered with units up to 10\u2019x30\u2019 in size.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">www.thelockup.com<\/a> to secure your Lock Up storage unit now.<\/p>\n<p><i>Has The Lock Up Self Storage saved you from flooding heartbreak? Share your story with us here!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lock Up Self Storage provides a dry, safe environment for the items you have stored in your basement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2338"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9513,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions\/9513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}