Winter Water
Woodstock is 1132 days old
Blondie and Dagwood are 618 days old
Nothing good is good anymore.
After several days of snowing and several days of sub-zero and near-zero temperatures it finally warmed up. Yesterday it got up into the 40's and all the accumulated snow and ice finally began to melt. Today is even better, being in the 50's. Of course, all that melted snow and ice has to go somewhere. Or at least it has to go somewhere if it can go somewhere. Given the situation of almost two feet of snow all melting at once, it comes as no surprise that everything is now flooded. There is no separation between the street and the sidewalk anymore. It is all just water now. And making the situation even better is the fact that for some odd reason, it has now decided to rain.
Normally I'd be very pleased with all of this water. It doesn't often reach 50 degrees or rain in winter in Chicagoland. I remember it raining very briefly in I believe January about four years ago and thought it was the most beautiful thing. Now I am forced to believe otherwise. The water is coming into the basement, and to stop it we've had to shut the valve. The sump pump is working overtime, for whatever that's worth. With the valve closed no water can come up through the drainage system. This also means that we can't send any water down through the system either. No washing dishes, no brushing teeth, no washing clothes, no showering, and--this is the kicker--no flushing the toilets.
I end this entry with a standard Period.
Blondie and Dagwood are 618 days old
Nothing good is good anymore.
After several days of snowing and several days of sub-zero and near-zero temperatures it finally warmed up. Yesterday it got up into the 40's and all the accumulated snow and ice finally began to melt. Today is even better, being in the 50's. Of course, all that melted snow and ice has to go somewhere. Or at least it has to go somewhere if it can go somewhere. Given the situation of almost two feet of snow all melting at once, it comes as no surprise that everything is now flooded. There is no separation between the street and the sidewalk anymore. It is all just water now. And making the situation even better is the fact that for some odd reason, it has now decided to rain.
Normally I'd be very pleased with all of this water. It doesn't often reach 50 degrees or rain in winter in Chicagoland. I remember it raining very briefly in I believe January about four years ago and thought it was the most beautiful thing. Now I am forced to believe otherwise. The water is coming into the basement, and to stop it we've had to shut the valve. The sump pump is working overtime, for whatever that's worth. With the valve closed no water can come up through the drainage system. This also means that we can't send any water down through the system either. No washing dishes, no brushing teeth, no washing clothes, no showering, and--this is the kicker--no flushing the toilets.
I end this entry with a standard Period.