CoolHandMike

Ooh I'm in the same boat. My PWS has been going strong on the original set of batts since late 2020. I really need to get up there and swap them out some time soon. On topic, I once again find myself working outside in the heat and humidity of summer. Today wasn't too bad, but I'm not especially looking forward to tomorrow and Friday. At least we have a 10 sq ft pop-up canopy to provide shade on the site, but it's not going to be pleasant. Thankfully, no tyvek this time around at least.

Drove through, and had to stop during, that absolute deluge in Exton this afternoon. Just could not see, driving 5 mph with the washers on "frenetic". There was no way in heck I was getting on the turnpike in that. Side note, I've noticed many of the beer stores did not completely sell out of pumpkin-themed beers last year and have been trying to sell them on discount ever since. I wonder if the "pumpkin-spice ALL THE THINGS" trend may be drawing down finally, in the beer world at least. Or maybe they already stocked it this year in late May and I already missed it.

I wish I had sandy soil. Nope, all clay. Muhlenberg, NW side. Weird thing that I haven't noticed before--we have soaker hoses for our gardens. One runs along the back of the house to water the mulched flowers and shrubs close to the house, One for the tomatoes and beans somewhat close to the house, one for the shrubs/trees planted along the back fence, and one for the squash garden on the far side of the house. I ran the hoses for the two closest to the house last night for an hour each. This morning, my sump pump began cycling on/off in ~10 second increments. The water was filling up that fast, and it hasn't rained in a bit. This happened for about a half hour before it stabilized. (Side note: pretty worrisome as I only noticed it while trying to leave for work at 5am. Ended up being late.) Granted, we've only had a working, float-switch operated sump since our flooding event two weeks ago, but I can't believe this is normal; we've been watering our gardens like this for a couple of years but the sump well has been consistently dry until two weekends ago when we got over 11" in three days. It's had at least a couple of inches of standing water in it since. I can't help but think that event somehow altered the groundwater flow in my neighborhood. Long story short, the next time we water, we'll cut it back to 1/2 hour per line and then closely monitor the ensuing results, if any, in our sump.

I'll be working outside in the heat all week again in NJ, but at least this time it won't be in Newark. Apologies to anyone who has to live there (or between there and Jersey City), but I'm sure glad I don't. Hot day here today, peaked at 92 and change, but once the back deck was in shade, it was actually pretty pleasant to do some grilling. What I'm kind of amazed at is how I still need to water my garden when there's still a couple of inches of water in the bottom of my basement dry well. Sheesh.

Pretty much the same over here. It's supposed to get down to 62 tonight, should make for some good sleeping weather with the windows open. If my neighbor's pool party ever winds down, that is. I'm gonna give em' until midnight to simmer down, then I start becoming "grumpy old man".

Got .86". Not bad.

I can assure you it is very much snap, crackling and popping out there. Already at almost a half an inch to boot.

Can confirm:

I don't know why I'm still up, but it's starting to get rowdy out.

The line progresses...

That is one angry-looking line of storms. I wonder if it'll make it to us.

After off and on clouds today, it turned sunny and our temp is steadily increasing. At 6pm. WTF. Impossible to do anything outside without turning into a swamp monster. Or even in my garage. Can we get that countdown to fall posted again please?

Just got a quick third of an inch. I was trapped in the car in the driveway with my groceries, really needing to use the bathroom. (The garage is full of projects in various stages. Dangit.) Thankfully it let up after a few minutes, but damn. I'll have to periodically check the sump to see if any of that percolates down to the water table. I really want to get some kind of remote sensor so I can data-log how it does over time. It's a part of my house that seemed like a harmless unknown, until it very much wasn't. Maybe I'll see if I can rig something up with a RasPi Zero or something...

Oops, posted this in the MA sub by mistake. I haven't posted all week since I've been travelling for work and not doing much else besides sleeping and eating. So here's a recap of my PWS: It's HOT. And it was nearly the same in Newark, NJ all week. I've worked in hotter weather, under worse conditions, but this week was a doozy. I am beat. But hey, at least our boil water advisory was lifted earlier today, so that's nice. There IS still 5" of water at the bottom of my dry sump well though, so that's a bit disconcerting. The new pump works though, and is temporarily installed with a hose running up to the washer drain in the garage. I plan to plumb it in all nice-like this weekend.

I haven't posted all week since I've been travelling for work and not doing much else besides sleeping and eating. So here's a recap of my PWS: It's HOT. And it was nearly the same in Newark, NJ all week. I've worked in hotter weather, under worse conditions, but this week was a doozy. I am beat. But hey, at least our boil water advisory was lifted earlier today, so that's nice. There IS still 5" of water at the bottom of my dry sump well though, so that's a bit disconcerting. The new pump works though, and is temporarily installed with a hose running up to the washer drain in the garage. I plan to plumb it in all nice-like this weekend. Edit: oops, meant to post this in the Philly area sub. My bad.

Water main break near me, but at least the basement stopped filling up in the wee hours of the morning. The water authority is apparently having a hard time finding the break. We were able to fill several buckets with our basement water so we'll be able to flush, and we also have two 50g rain barrels when that runs out. Only saw a couple of large trees down while I was out and about this morning... We got super lucky there wasn't a lot of wind over here.

I'd say they haven't stopped burning.

Water main break here north of Reading, unless it's just us with no pressure

I did some quick, back-of-the-envelope calculations and my little basement sump well seems to be recharging at a rate of 2.5 gallons per minute. That is QUITE the recharge rate. I'll check it again in a couple of hours to see how/if the rate decreases. We got VERY lucky in that the house came with a sump pump, but since it was in the shed, I believe it was only used for the above-ground pool that used to be here many years before we moved in. It's only 1/6hp, but it's doing the business, just, removing ~3gpm. I have a 1/2hp pump on the way.

I should hope so! I'm seeing reports from people's PWSs of anywhere from 4.5 to 8.5" in my local area. My 24" deep sump dry well has only drained to 16" of water in ~2 hours. Unfortunately, it does not have a flow switch so I will be monitoring it throughout the night. Luckily, I already had a pre-configured Raspberry Pi camera sitting in a drawer so it's currently employed to look at the sump well. Even though we flooded a little bit, we got extremely lucky. Who knows how many feet of water could have infilled had we not been proactive. My new sump pump will have a float switch for added peace of mind. It's still drizzling a little but I can see the back edge of it now. P.s.: Does anyone here remember a couple of days ago in this thread when I said this weekend's rainy forecast was all lies and prevarications? Turns out I was right. But in the complete opposite way I wanted to be. This was then: THIS is what actually happened:

I can't believe how many GPM I'm pumping from my basement. I don't want to pull the sump out to see if it's marked with a flow rate, but the water table must be at the ground surface right now. I think I might see if I can get another pump tomorrow for backup. Hope they don't all get sold out. Actually, I think I'll go snag one from Amazon for next-day delivery instead.

Basement just started to flood from the dry sump well. Thankfully we were able to drop a pump in there and it's slowly pumping down. I think it got up to a half-inch deep in the lowest corner of the basement. This went from "Oh, would you look at that, it's raining a lot!" to "This isn't funny anymore." Like I said, we're on a hill. Hope everyone else is staying safe!

We got just over 5" when Ida rolled through two years ago. The Skook is starting to come up now. Historical data is at the bottom:

That's gotta be old data they published at 3:30. I'm just a mile NE of there and they've been in the thick of it longer than we have. Can't wait to see the totals tomorrow!

I mistyped earlier: 6.72". Now at 6.75"