The plan had been to use the sump pump to transfer the water from the barrels on the truck to barrels on the ground. Ahhh plans. It feels like a sport sometimes, strategies drawn and plotted, thwarted, on the fly reworking, success with perseverence. When we hooked up the sump pump, nothing happened. I went down to trouble shoot the wiring, and when I flipped the braker I heard a pop and saw smoke coming from the outlet. I didn't consider that a good sign...No one was hurt, but we weren't going to be using the sump pump....Here Ani Rene ponders the situation. Keep in mind it was the three of us (which gave KT great delight), Amber who is 3 weeks from giving birth, Rene who has been doing this for a looong time, and myself, who ain't no spring chicken, and am certainly no beefcake. We were working with 55 gallon barrels full of water. We did, however, find a system that worked...