Maybe the spiders will get a little more peace now that I won't be visiting them ever two hours. This would be a long story involving frozen discharge pipes from the pump that keeps groundwater from accumulating under the house, and people not understanding that water goes downhill, and also building for typical weather instead of foreseeably-extreme. But it's supposedly fixed now and the weather will be ducking above freezing regularly for a while.
I have been hearing the pump run every couple of hours, and it's noisier than before, but more importantly, it's STOPPING running too. I haven't been in the basement in almost TEN HOURS.
*kawhrrrrrrrrrrKHTHUNK*. So satisfying.