First-World Problems...

Yes folks, that is a sump, with a pump. A made-in-America sump pump that is so ridiculously powerful that I am concerned about how fast the cycles are!

And why is it made in America? Because the last one -- the Chinese one -- failed. And of course, as you and I and Murphy know quite well, things like that fail only at the worst possible moments.

But this really isn't a problem...first or second or even third world! Because the damned thing works like a champ, and the only minor issue is that the overflow vent spits a bit of water out of the reservoir. But even I, the grand poobah of trivial issues, can't get too exercised about that!

Oh...what about in the event of a power failure? Hah! I have two deep-discharge marine batteries hooked up to an inverter, so in the event of a blackout I will still have loads of power available to this beast to pump out the sump. My calculations give me about 100 one minute cycles, and at 60 gallons/minute? I think I am okay!

Yes...I am scraping the bottom of the First World Problems barrel, but sometimes it's important to lean back, smell the roses, eat the oysters and cauliflower, and enjoy living in the greatest country on earth.

So see you next week. I promise I will have something genuinely awful!

posted by CBD at 02:00 PM

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