When It Rains…

When we returned home we found that our sump pump, wasn't pumping. The back and side yards were flooded. We get a lot of water and we installed a French drain and drain inlets that are drained by a sump pump. It's worked great since about 1998 without any attention. Must have died of old age. The motor evidently burned out. Fortunately, the same exact pump is still made and replacement was easy. After running a while to drain the sump and surface area, it has been cycling every few minutes draining the water from the very saturated ground. Hopefully, all will be drier soon. No damage, just darn wet and muddy.
Don's brother Ernie was going to drop by with his two dogs for a weekend visit but we had to cancel the visit. The dogs like to run in the yard and would have been big mud balls. Instead, we drove over to Santa Nella to Pea Soup Anderson's to meet them for dinner.