Tonight I went downstairs to hang out in my basement den and I immediately noticed water seeping up through the seams in the floor.
So I walked over and looked to find my sump hole completely filled and ready to overflow.
The water table (our well) has risen to meet the basement floor, and it's raining again!
We were NOT prepared, so I had to scramble around and go out to the track to fetch hoses from the watering system in the dark, half of my adapter fittings were out there too.
So we get the hose hooked up and started the pump. Nothing happens, I look and there is a gob of that plastic easter grass all jammed up in my sump pump.
I hooked up pump number two, it hardly made a difference, fired up the gasoline pump, and it won't prime!
So I finally hooked up our 220 volt monster pump (It's a sewer treatment pump, it's big) and it has been running for two hours now, at least it's pulling the level down a bit, and keeping the water off the floor.
This thing will be running non stop now for about the next month!!
No rest here until the water table / underground aquifer recedes below the 8 foot mark.
Meanwhile, the fire hose running out into the yard will be belching a couple hundred gallons a minute.
and our electric meter is spinning like mad!! next months power bill is going to be scary big.
Floodwater rising...solved the puzzle!
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