plumbing sucks.
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I'll bet you have a big, really old tree very close by...
June of 2008 we had some heavy...no, torrential rains here, and out in the pasture south of my house, right where the pipe coming out of the septic tank joins to it, a Locust tree had grown it's roots into it, choking off the flow. Needless to say, after the 12-18 inches of rain in a day and half, I had about a foot of water in basp00get. It wasn't the sewer that had backed up, just that the basp00get leaks a bit in very wet weather, and the drain getting 3/4 choked shut, the ground saturated, and the extra-heavy rain had pooled up in my basp00get.
I lost a few boxes of 5.0 and MM&FF magazines, but that was really the worst of the damage.
A sump pump, and a pickup load of wet, moldy later, it was all good.
Sorry to hear about your shiznitty situation...might be time to call in a plumbing/septic outfit, get an estimate, or least an idea of wth to do..?
Are you on a town's waste system, or do you have a tank?
If you have a tank, could be that it's full...but if you see roots right below your toilet...well...that's the biggest problem anyway.
Let us know how it goes..., and I sympathize man, this kinda thing sucks hard.