The plumber showed up today. I don't blame him, someone at the company he works for dropped the ball and there was some communication mishaps. The company knew what was our problem was. We were told, if this is even accurate, that no one who could repair frozen lines worked on the weekend. And why a plumbing company wouldn't have a person or two that could work on the weekends or at least be available on the weekend so if someone called up with a problem like ours, they could be taken care of. Our weekend plans were totally screwed up because of the communication malfunction. The plumber was an older gentleman who was finished within a couple hours.

Managed to get almost of all of the water out of the basement. Had to spend one hundred dollars to get a much better shop-vac. The new vac can be used to pump water out via a garden hose. So in less then a couple hours, the water was nearly gone.

Yesterday was cold but sunny. We had a light amount of snow Saturday night. Today was cold and for most of the morning cloudy, cleared up this afternoon.