A week ago today, we had a huge down pour that left our yard (and most of our neighborhood) flooded. As you may remember I had posted about this happening to us last year. At that time the city had said it was a "once in a hundred year storm" and we wouldn't need to worry about it happening again. Apparently they were wrong. We were very lucky this time and were able to get the extra water away from our house before it came in our basement. A lot of our problem is the way our builder sank our house down, so we have a hill that allows all the water to drain straight towards our window wells.
This sand box is actually two feet lower than the yard because we had taken dirt out of it to level out our yard before laying sod. So what you see is more than two feet of water in there.
Jeff and our neighbors bailed out the water by our window wells. Luckily another neighbor brought over a pump and it cleared the water away pretty fast. Since I was trying to keep my curious little guys out of all that water, I offered my support by snapping pictures with my phone :).
A week ago today, we had a huge down pour that left our yard (and most of our neighborhood) flooded. As you may remember I had posted about this happening to us last year. At that time the city had said it was a "once in a hundred year storm" and we wouldn't need to worry about it happening again. Apparently they were wrong. We were very lucky this time and were able to get the extra water away from our house before it came in our basement. A lot of our problem is the way our builder sank our house down, so we have a hill that allows all the water to drain straight towards our window wells.
2 comments:
I love the way you supported him. :) So sorry about all the water, though! That totally stinks....
The best kind of support...is there anything that they can do to fix it so it doesn't keep happening?
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