The Pump

We had so much rain today that our backyard couldn't keep up with it. By the afternoon, the water was all the way up to the bottom of our sliding glass doors threatening to come in the house.

The drains couldn't drain because there was so much water in the street out front it had no place to go. Also, we think the drains on the south side are clogged with roots from trees and the like.

Duff and Christine headed for Lowe's to get some hoses to siphen the water and run it out down the back to the golf course. They came home with an electric pump. This thing was awesome! You hook it up to your garden hose, plug it in to an outlet and it pumps all the water out. We ran the hose to the back slope and the water coming out of that was like the faucet was on full blast!

Apparently we are not alone. Duff said the pumps were flying off the shelves. He had to go back 30 minutes later and get a part that was missing from our box, and they were gone! The clerk said it was a no win situation for him. He watches the weather intently and then orders supplies based on the forecast. If he ordered too many and the rain was light, he would be in trouble. But now he will be in trouble because there weren't enough! Haha!

It pumps 1400 gallons of water in one hour. We ran it for almost 3 hours. So the math on that would mean roughly about 4000 gallons of water were rising and ready to invade us!

We've had a respite during the night but the next storm is on it's way! They say Thursday should be the worst.

And so now we have a pump. Who would have thought.

Oh. And 24 was great. Hmmm. Renee is back and she is not 'right'! EEEeeeeee.