On the 9th day without water, I thought things were resolved. However, as Murphy's Law predicts, the solution was not as swift and easy as we'd anticipated. Eventually, after about six visits from the Pump Man and the enlistment of two Electrician$, the diagnosis was a break in the power supply. That may not sound so serious, but our well is a thousand feet from our house. And, the electric line is buried 3-4 feet in the ground. Were we faced with digging up the entire line to find the problem?
Fortunately, one of the Electrician$ had an expensive (just how expensive, we'll learn, I'm sure) device that, when stuck into the ground, detected EXACTLY where the line was leaking juice. When Bryan got home from work on Thursday afternoon, he used the front loader on his tractor to expose the wire. Friday morning the Electrician returned, spliced the line (that appeared to have been gnawed by a rodent--no doubt executed on the spot and justly so), and the Pump Man finished installing the new pump.
On the 19th day we had water, and it was good.
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