I'm considering vacuuming up the snow outside with a wet vac.

[DebJ]

I think that is possible, right?

Our house is on a hill sloping from the back of the lot to the street out front.
Every time it snows, it piles up very heavily along the back of the house.
We have about two feet of it there right now and six more inches possible
today.

Then when the warmer weather hits, our basement will most likely flood.

We have a kitchen and a bathroom window along the back wall. I was thinking
it would be much more pleasant to vacuum snow up through the window and
dump it in the shower or kitchen sink then to vacuum up a flood in the basement.

Have I gone snow-crazy? Possibly.

[Suich]

1. Sounds like a plan to me!

Have you done it yet?

[DebJ]

2. It snowed most of the day here.

Might try tomorrow, but we have an engagement. If not, Monday will be the day!

[GoCubsGo]

3. You'd have to do an awful lot of dumping.

Most wet vacs don't have a whole lot of capacity, so you'd have to empty it frequently. Seems like a huge waste of time to me. And, if the snow is the wet, slushy kind, it might be too heavy to be sucked up.

[anasv]

5. +1 to GoCubsGo

Empty out the basement with one of those portable pumps. Get a hose extension if necessary to reach a door or window.

The whole house would be freezing by the time you made a zillion trips to empty out the vac.

[DebJ]

7. Fortunately the vac can sit in the shower stall while we use it

from the bathroom window. It was awful to push it all the way across the basement when we flooded,
empty, and start over. Took about 8 hours to suck up about 1-2 inches. Using the big one and a smaller one.

[anasv]

8. trust me

Use a portable pump on that basement. It is almost work free. You throw it in, run the hose to wherever you want to dump the water (presumaby a front window or door), turn it off when it's done.

Or if flooding is a normal occurrence, have a sump pump put in. That's no work once it's installed.

[DebJ]

6. We have an enormous one after we got hit with two hurricanes in a few days

and this is south central Pa!

[ashling]

9. Don't "dump" it

If you have a vac with a drain, you can connect a garden hose and run it to a drain. Just make sure the vac is positioned higher than the length of the hose. The heat of the motor should melt the snow at least that is the idea.

I had to drain my dad's courtyard during a big rain as water was getting into the house.

[Boom Sound 416]

4. I say give it a go!