I'm doing okay. This is the first time since I've been here that my sump pump has been put to use. The basement hasn't flooded. (A *basement*? Next to the Skookumchuck? Yeah.)
So other than poking around in the sump pump hole with an old piece of bamboo (shurrup! It has a float like that in a toilet tank!), we're good.
The ducks have created another pond in a flower bed. My dog's pretty much over all this rain business despite being part lab.
There's nothing but mud in the house.
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Yah. Plus I don't know if there's a battery back up. I have an inversion generator, but I might need a whole house generator which might blow up the few knob and tube lines and blargh.
Yah - basement is good. I poked the float with that bamboo stick so it would bounce and turn on the pump. Pumps working. I should probably stop poking it with a stick.
I live east of Oregon City out in the rural area. We lose power several times a year due to the weather. My electrician buddy and I installed a new breaker box that allows me to reverse feed from my generator back into the breaker panel, and with a 10K watt generator, I can run pretty much everything in my house except for 220V stuff. The breaker box has a mechanical lock out so you can't have it getting power from the line and the generator at the same time. It works really well and didn't cost much to install.
I have a battery back up on my sump pump too though.
This house was built in 192err9? Something like that, so one of the first things I had done when I moved here was have an electrician look at the works.
I wanted a new breaker box but then there was all this business about having to move it because the house had been grandfathered in re: the location of the box and if he did any work, blah blah move the box and ugh.
I asked him if the wiring was okay and if my house was going to burn down due to the knob and tube. And he said naw - the previous owner always had new lines installed when he did things like adding appliances and all that good stuff and no one spliced the knob and tube lines that were still juiced and I was good.
I think I'm going to bite the bullet this year and have the electrician replace the box and get an outdoor gennie.
Meanwhile, I've managed to go 24 hours without poking the sump pump with a stick. A personal best!
Solid Signal has all kinds of odd things. I have been buying from them for several years. I actually enjoy getting their ads because I find out about things like this I never knew existed. I got a small little sensor for under my sink that beeps but for something like a pump or a water in a place I don't go often I would want something that would hit my phone ASAP before real damage can be done!
I hate, hate, HATE the Astoria bridge! That thing is scary AF! Holy smokes that's one terrifying bridge going south. All you see is the sky, and it's like, HOW DID I ACCIDENTALLY DRIVE ON A ROLLERCOASTER?
Horrible.
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Wow that is a fairly scary looking bridge Beth. Four miles long!
Greetings from the other side of the world where the weather remains rather dry and warm. Fires still everywhere but also some tropical cyclones and floods further north.
Next time around I think we should populate a planet with a more predictable and bland environment. Does Kolob's solar system offer any such choices?
Or perhaps we could commission one from Slartibartfast on the planet-building world of Magrathea.
where I live, Sequim, is in Clallam County, named after the 'english' spelling of the tribe(s) that live(d/s) here, the s'clallam.
Duwamish indians lived in part of what is now Seattle.
Where I lived BD, now Carnation, used to be named Tolt until the milk company (now part of Nestle) came in. Various sub-tribes of the Snoqualmie Indians still are rooted there.
Also Spokane, Wenatchee.
Mt. Rainer was formerly called Tahoma by the indigenous peoples ; (hence city of Tacoma) now after some British explorer guy who 'discovered it'.
Walla Walla also, along with many others;
Utah was also named after Indians / native americans / indigenous people / First Nations.
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C'mon! You know there's no such place as "Skookumchuck." Oncce someone told me they were from a place called (get this) "Scappoose." I set them straight.