Hurricane Ida didn't reach us, but a massive destructive storm front did. Huge black clouds loomed over the house and then lashed everything with monsoon rains. An omen, but of what??
Turned out the omen of too much water in the sky was NO WATER in the house. A sudden and complete nothing in the lines. Not the breakers or the filter or anything obvious. Luckily, got two pump specialists on short notice. They agreed no problem in the house. So, down to the shore well we go. Trying one layer of possibility after another. Eventually, Felix was hanging upside down under water! Glug... They were here 3 days morning til night, hours and $$$ piling up. We're on rain barrel and 4' x 4' x 4' water cube, heating water on the stove...
Meanwhile some comic relief as two young foxes circle the house. One sunny dawn they're licking some fish skin paper. Then they come up on the porch to look for any other edibles. They just look small, not like the sleek plumpish foxes in the documentaries...
Then some fox behaviour never seen before. They realize a chipmunk is hiding in a drain pipe, scurrying back and forth in the pipe in fear. The fox runs back and forth following the sound inside the pipe. Then it leaps over and over at the pipe!?!? Trying to bust through? Intimidate? It gets pointless as the fox repeats the jump for 10 minutes or more. Huh?
After three days of working the water pump theory with no change, we get lucky again and get a diver out at short notice. Out he goes to the intake pipe ---- but the salmon derby is still on and he might be hooked as the big one! He brings in a corroded 2" steel section that probably broke "10 years ago". So we now have a temporary intake line and a temporary fix in the house. But much more work is needed next week...
Not much of a holiday weekend here with all the uncertainty of plumbing, COVID, federal election, and various crazies in various countries. But the sun came up as bright and welcome as ever. Is the well half empty or half full?
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