On Sun, 13 May 2018 12:01:56 -0600, rbowman
wrote:

On 05/13/2018 08:53 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 5/12/2018 5:48 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:

"On Slab" works good in Florida where anything resembling a basement
is liable to become an indoor swimming pool

Sump pumps work wonders.

And I though Florida was dry?


Need much more than a sump pump. You can hit water at 6 feet. You can
drill a working well at 10 to 30 feet. f a swimming pool is not filled
with water, it may float up out of the ground.

Rainfall is about 59 inches a year, close to what the UK gets, but it
has many more sunny days. It actually rains more days per year, but the
rain is brief and then the sun is out.

there's brief and then there is brief... I remember one brief afternoon
rainstorm at Highlands Hammock SP near Sebring when I thought I was
going to drown on supposed dry land.

Just go to Lakeland for Sun'n Fun airshow - usually get lots of
"liquid sunshine" and you consider it a good year if your tent doesn't
float and you don't get stuck in the mud.

The exception is the odd year when it's so dry car exhausts start the
entire grass parking area on fire.( 2006)