Bad things part II

This picture isn't very illustrative since I was too busy at the time to snap photos. So, to recap: Pike Place Market, Venge Pee^TM, washing machine, Piper's Halloween party... After the Halloween party, at 2 AM, I went downstairs to switch the laundry. I walked into the basement, and into a pool of water. Something, presumably the washing machine, had overflowed all over our brand new engineered wood flooring. I yelled to Benjamin to bring all the towels and the two of us sopped it up the best we could. Needless to say I was distressed. Monday after work we brought the garden hose in through the window and started trying to isolate the problem. We put water down the outflow pipe and nothing happened. We put water down the floor drain and nothing happened. So I decided to run a small (empty) wash load. I did and nothing happened. So I ran a larger load. On the second rinse cycle, the water in the downstairs toilet started to burble and water came rushing out of the floor drain. We'd isolated the problem and it was in the sewer line. The reason only the washer caused the overflow was because it wasn't a complete blockage and the washing machine was the only thing that send enough water through fast enough to back it up all the way into the house. We thought we were so clever putting in that floor drain to catch emergency overflow from the washer. It never occurred to me that water would come out of it. A couple nights later I had Rescue Rooter come out and snake the line, taking a video as well. Our sewer line is the original concrete jobby from 1919 and it isn't pretty. Let's just say there is a very happy cedar tree right outside our house. We'll starting saving up our ~$10,000 to fix it now...