On Tue, 11 Oct 2016 11:21:50 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>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.
>>
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>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.

That must be a very shallow well. I wouldn't want to drink ground
water. I have two drilled wells (six inch), each almost 200' deep.
Reminds me, It hasn't rained here for about three weeks, time to water
my new trees and grass seed.