I knew it was gona happen,the city plowed the side streets while I was at work today.... Any got a bobcat or front loader ? Lol !!!
That Geo will be there a while.
The alarm goes off yesterday at the usual 3:45am, wife gets into the shower and comments water pressure is a lot lower than usual. I get some cloths on and trudge out to the pump house to find that over two feet of snow in my front yard is melted and I see green grass and soggy ground. I wasn't quite all awake yet and was wondering why it was spring in my yard and winter in my drive way.
I got to the pump house to find a river flowing out. HMMM no water in the pump house so it must be the pipe from the pump to the pressure tank broken.
I shut off the breaker and notice the box was very warm so the pump must have been running for a long time.
I go to the house and have a cup or two of coffee leave a message at work that I wouldn't be in cause I just got a new swimming pool and was going to stay home and enjoy it.
Waited till 7 and went to the small town near me to get a spark plug for the snow blower so I could try to clear more snow, got five gal of gas in the can and went in to pay for the gas, just as the guy gives me my change the juice goes off. Guess I got gas just in time.
Called the well guy, said he'd be out in 4 or 5 hrs.
Ran the blower up and down the drive for a couple of hours, drive way is about 400ft. Then the neighbor comes over with his front loader and punches it wider than I ever could have. It is very heavy mostly frozen snow over 2ft thick.
The well guys show up and get to work, find the where the water is coming from, some pipe that goes some where in a direction that there is nothing to go to. HMMMMM. must have been something the original guy did years ago.
They start digging in rock and roots, this is going very slowly so I go get the neighbor to see if he could bring over his back hoe. He comes over digs a giant hole, finally finds the pipe going to the house down about 4ft and snags it breaking it (not his fault, thats the chance you take) well guy finds the mystery pipe caps it off and repairs the damaged pipe..got water to the house...good deal.
In the mean time while all this is going on I find that the freezer in the shed next to the pump house has died, probaly a week ago. Fortunatly its been cold and the 1/2 a hog and whole lamb were still frozen, some small pakagaes were soft but ok. Took what we could into the fridge freezer in the house and buried the rest in coolers in the snow. Now its about 13hsrs later. I get ready to take a nice hot shower and the neighbor to the west calls and tells me another neighbor is out of wood which is his only means of heat and he watched a tree fall just that moring, and found out Don had no wood about two hours later and could I help load up the tree he cut up and deliver it to the neighbor. Soooo.
After the neighbor with the bucket loader punches a hole about 150yds long it to a field to get to the wood we load two pick ups and unload. Another neighbor went to a near by wood shop and got a load of cedar mills ends and delivered them at the same time.
Finally got my shower around 8pm.
Ate dinner and went to bed realizing I am a very blessed man. All in all it was a good day.
