/diy/ - Do It Yourself

I spent almost an entire day awake continuously micromanaging a pool sump pump and a shopvac to evacuate several thousand gallons if water from my basement as experiencing record rain numbers.
The flow of water in was fast enough to cause flooding if unattended, but slow enough where continuous running of pool sump pump would burn out the motor due to low spot only being roughly 1/2 deep before spreading over a greater area. I partially got around this by elevating the shop vac over a 30 gallon container and draining it several times, then running the pump, repeat 4-6 times per hour. I devised a solution by installing the pump in a 5 gallon bucket and putting a 5 gallon lid shop vac motor on top in hopes of continuously running both, but it was only partially effective and reverted to the other method to avoid killing the shop vac lid since it would work for smaller volumes well,but overheat for the sheer amount of work it had to do in that instance.

Is there any fish tank or fountain sized pumps between 60-200 gallon per hour flow rate, preferably variable speed that can handle not being submerged as well as sucking air most if the time?
If I had a small fountain pump with a small diameter hose each end that could have handled that abuse, I could've mitigated the micromanaging to maybe 2-4 time's an hour or even less with a large enough storage tank instead of literally ever few minutes.