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

[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!