Aren't you glad this isn't freezing rain?

[TomK]

Hey..i can see blue sky....lol...after that deluge yesterday and the overnight freeze and then a half i ch of the white stuff a little sunshine is always a good thing....the girls are actually outside... :)... At least i don't worry about power...just one less thing to lose sleep over

[Brebis]

Yup, power came back on just after 11 pm, the basement is damp but the sump did it's job. I know it's going to flood so keep things up. Now the driveway is a river cause that is where the sump water goes!

[Robbie]

Brebis I'm curious, I thought Prince Edward county was dry dry dry and had a water deficit problem- I'm surprised to hear that your basement floods. What parts of the county have good ground water year round?

[Brebis]

It's a but of a paradox here as we are surrounded by water and don't have much ground water until it rains! It's sits right on limestone in most places less that 4 ft below so the water just seeps through to the Rock and then flows from there...most places have at least one sump in the basement for times like these.
Of course most of the old houses around here had large cisterns in the basement to capture some of this water but new comers have taken them out and discover quite quickly that by mid summer there's no water in the well and they don't have a storage cistern either so keep the water haulers around here very busy!
We're lucky we have a very large spring fed pond at the back of the property to supplement the drilled well by the house but it gets pretty skunky in the summer and the house well often goes dry even though it's only used for drinking water. But the water is always rusty and high in manganese. Quite a change from where we used to live up un Dufferin County with lots of wonderful water!

[WaupoosCowgirl]

We are lucky here and have a shore well! The neighbours give us dirty looks when we hook up the fire hose in July to wash the combine after wheat. We don't own waterfront but the farm has an easement with our pump house on it, the water is pumped a long way too, under the road as well but when my father in law was milking cows it had to be done because the well at the barn was always running dry. Of course he did it in the 80's when interest rates were insane!