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Like so many other people, my basement is flooding today. There are 2 problems:
-The basement/cellar opens onto the backyard, which has a drain at the lowest point, but today’s rain has backed the drain up and now there is a quarter-inch of water standing up to the wall of the basement/cellar.
-This water is creeping in under the baseboards.

We just moved into this apartment, and (like idiots) didn’t realize we should probably stay home during the first heavy rain since we’ve been here, so we came back today to a pretty well-flooded cellar floor. We dried it out, but now that the rain has picked up again, The water is seeping in, and we’re holding it at bay with towels pressed against the baseboards that need constant wringing out.

So here are my two questions:

-Can anyone suggest a service that can fix the drain in the backyard, or at least diagnose what is wrong with it and suggest alternate solutions?
AND
-What is the best way to seal the basement wall so that water will not seep in from the yard even if it DOES flood? I actually just caulked between the baseboard and the floor because I thought ants could get in there, but the water doesn’t seem to have noticed my efforts.

ANY ADVICE WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED,

-Clueless