Drain troubles

We did a lot of wash today both dishes and clothes. The basement drain clogged up. doh. So I take off the cover and try to unscrew the clean-out. Problem. It doesn't come out. Get the drill out. Use what was left of the battery drilling through the brass clean out. Drain battery and change. Finish drilling a big hole in the clean-out. Get the snake out and attach it to the drill. Run the drill and it spins hopefully grinding through the clog. Shoot the snake all the way down, 25'. Grind away and try to get something loose. Nopers. I forgot to mention I'm standing in 1" of water. OK, get the other snake out. It is a flat band of metal about 1/2 inch wide and 40' long. Run that all the way to the end. Nada. OK this is not looking good. Time to get out the big guns. I get the garden hose and this adapter for the end of it. It is a rubber bladder that screws to the end of the hose and on the other end is a small slit to shoot water out with high pressure. Shoved that down the drain, hooked it up to the washing maching supply and let 'er rip. Blasted right through that sucker. Whew. Then took another half-hour to clean up the mess of tools and wet sloppy black junk. MMmmm, yummy. Smells good too.