This is just too good not to share. I’m a huge fan of Woot!. A while back (it’s probably been a couple of years now) we had a problem with water in our basement. Our house is really dry for the most part, so much so that we don’t even have a sump pump. Every few years, we get enough water to seep up into the floor just a bit. Woot! advertised these things called LeakFrogs: that are little plastic frogs that have metal contacts on the bottom. You put them where you suspect water might seep in, if it gets high enough to cause a connection between the contacts it starts beeping to let you know.

Well, after what I had just been through, I bought a couple of them and put them in the basement (enduring strange looks from the wife and kids in the process). For those who don’t live in the area, Rochester got a pretty big snow storm this weekend. We ended up somewhere in the 15-20 inch range where I live, but not too bad. Usually we don’t have any water issues from melting until spring, but my wife came down the stairs this morning and heard this strange beeping noise. Sure enough, it was the leakfrog, and it gave me plenty of time to hook up the utility pump and take care of the problem before it turned into something serious.

Yay Leakfrog!!