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Dave Smith[_1_]

On 2016-10-11 7:25 AM, wrote:
> The heavy storm arrived here yesterday and last night, mixed in with
> another storm and although it has brought much needed rain for filling
> wells (apparently record amounts in one go) many people, including my
> son, are without power and lots of trees are down - my grandson lost a
> beautiful old apple tree - we were sitting under it for shade a few
> weekends ago, but it's gone now. Took part of the garage with it.
>
> Maximum damage has been done up in Cape Breton, all schools closed
> today.
>

I will pass on the wind but we could sure use some of that rain. I have
a dug well and a cistern. I collect some water off the roof, but most
of it is delivered and at $55 FOR 1500 gallons, we take it easy on water
use when we are on the cistern. Some summers I have to switch to
cistern in August and by September the well is back up up. This year I
switched to cistern in June. I tried to switch back last week but it was
sucking air. I took the well cover off last week and was surprised to
see it is still dry. It is not just low. It is dry. It will take a lot
of rain to permeate the ground enough to get it filled up again.