history: Last year, heavy rainfall caused my basement to flood. I lost all of my childhood photos as well as many irreplaceable things from my past. Last year_comma_ during the spring_comma_ extremely heavy rainfall caused our basement to become flooded. Oh man! I have been there_comma_ I hope you didn't have anything special down there??
current: I lost all of my childhood photos and many of my childhood toys and things I had saved, my bible from my late grandmother being one of the items.
next: Oh lord, i am so sorry! I have been there, that is hard!