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Do we need a plumber, an electrician, or an exorcist?

3 years ago

Lightning struck last night, really loud and really close. The power went out and our Generac kicked on. We went to bed and didn’t run any water until the power came back on three hours later.

Then my husband got up to find we had no water. Or so we thought. He went to our utility closet and manually reset the water softener — since it was installed after the Generac, he thought maybe it hadn’t come back on. We tried the water upstairs and it sputtered and started. Problem would be solved, we thought, once the air was bled from the lines. Went back to bed.

Well. Nope. This morning it keeps sputtering — both hot and cold — on all floors and at all fixtures. Took 20 minutes to halfway fill a bathtub this AM. Hubby ran the utility sink faucet by the utility closet that houses the downstairs water heater, softener, and what I think is a pressure tank. Then he noticed the gauge on the pressure tank was swinging back and forth as the water flow sputtered and slowed.

Last time lightning took out our in-ground well pump we had zero water. So does this sound like a problem for a plumber? An electrician? Or should we call back the people who installed our well pump last time? Pretty sure it’s not a problem for our water softener installer. If anyone can point me in the right direction, we would appreciate it.

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