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With no sump well, a pump wouldn't have done particularly well here anyway
as water pickup would have been difficult. But a wet vac can gobble up
quite a bit of water in a short time. I soon got into a fairly efficient
workflow of operations: put the vac motor and hose back on the canister,
suck up water until the outlet began spitting spray, haul the canister
upstairs and dump into the toilet. I could do it all right from sitting
at the bottom of the stairs, as just to the right there is one of the lower
spots of the whole floor and the water obligingly ran back toward me from
everywhere else to collect there.
While the 4 gallons or so that the vac holds seems like a lot, the volume
of just an inch of water across the footprint of a house is substantially
more, and it took many such trips to finally bring the level down. But
it didn't actually take that long.
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