Plague 2021 #3 No water!

[geowench]

Well it happened, albeit differently than I expected.  The pipes have not frozen, but the sensor on the well pump froze.  E managed to get it thawed and working twice yesterday, but it's well and truly frozen now and so we are without running water until things warm up - probably another 2 days.  The only truly bad part of this is the toilets.  I'm going to buy us a camping or composting toilet to keep in the garage, so we don't have to live with toilets we can't flush in the future.  

I think I deserve a bloody medal for not saying I TOLD YOU SO for all the times I asked E about 1) insulating the pump and 2) running electricity out to the wellhouse.  I will insist this summer, at least about the electricity.  

I ALSO deserve a medal for taking my walks everyday except yesterday in this bloody godawful weather.  And I would have done it yesterday but E started a fire at like 9 in the morning, which meant we couldn't leave it unattended.  It was a balmy 3F for today's walk.  Hard to tell how much it's actually snowed, some places it's only a dusting, other places there are knee high drifts.  I'm guessing a couple of inches, but can't really say.

Comments

[old_black]

Oh no! Now that water isn't flowing is there a risk that the pipes will freeze after all?

I agree that you are an absolute champion of self restraint and self discipline!

[geowench]

Well the pipes are mostly empty, so I think not?

[mrs_redboots]

One can flush the toilet with a bucket of water - had to, when our pipes froze in the hard winter of 1962-63. My mother just pours it into the bowl, but I find it easier to pour it into the cistern first and then flush in the normal way.

Hope it warms up for you soon - our cold snap is now over, thankfully, and we are expecting almost spring-like temperatures in the next few days.

[geowench]

Yes, but we don't have enough water to do very often!

[fineplan]

Yikes! The weather is so weird... We've had sub zero temperatures here, too, which is unusual, but y'all seem to have gotten WAY more snow that we did. We got maybe an inch over the last week?

I'm sorry you're without water. :( I didn't know sensors could freeze!

[geowench]

You know, maybe it's just because I tend to pessimism, but I KNEW all this out with 2020 in with 2021 was a bad idea!

[fineplan]

I was trying to be really cautious about expecting things to be better, but wow has this year managed to be way more of a doozy!