As I mentioned a few days ago in twitter, the outflow pipe of our sump pump froze.

I had gone down stairs to get something from the utility room and found that the sump pump was running … and didn’t stop.  The pump sounded OK, but no water was draining from the pit.  I turned the power to the pump off and triggered the backup pump … which ran but didn’t remove any water.   This meant that the pumps themselves weren’t the problem.  I went outside and discovered that the outflow pipe was frozen solid.  Clearly not a good situation.

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