Very good article explaining the details of how wells actually work. It is good to see it in a picture.

Something similar happened to us last year, during a drought situation. The water simply stopped flowing. We knew nothing about the setting here so we called a professional.

It took us a while to even find the well, which was embarrassing, but it turned out to be under the house. The expert had never seen such a setting.

In the end it was a broken pump so he had a bunch of people involved in hauling out the old pump, 250 ft deep, through the house, and replacing it with a new pump.

Four days without running water.

Yes, we now keep a lot of drinking water saved and have 3 rain barrels supplemented with 5 gal buckets for outside water usage.

We are very careful about our water usage now.