Slow recovery, but improvement nonetheless!

The rain has held off today, and the flow rate into the basement seems to be slowing. Peak interval time on the pump was 22 seconds - just remeasured and it's 27 seconds now. Hopefully this means things are settling back to normal levels even if slowly. I'll take any improvement at this stage.

I ordered a second, portable sump pump online which should be here first thing tomorrow morning. It should make for a good "backup" device, and help us to clean out the lower part of the basement... sans buckets!!