I looked first closer and found that the water had indeed made it under the road from one side to another which likely means at some point (unless someone puts tamped down dirt there and removes the entire road in this section that the road is going to fail likely this winter.
However, I also found another culprit. Someone in a large truck likely turned around in our driveway and knocked down a white roadside sign completely. However, when I looked more carefully at all this just before sundown today I saw the real problem. The truck had knocked off two large sections of cement about 10 inches thick by 2 feet thick into the storm drains which had caused a lot of havoc when the 10 inches of rain came down. Unless you looked really carefully like I did you would have missed what a big problem this would be for erosion in 10 inches of water coming down in hours and how it undermined a big tree as well as the paved road going by as well to where with enough more rain the entire paved road is going to fail at least for 10 to 20 feet which will cause the whole paved road to be closed until someone repaves that section and adds dirt and tamps down the dirt with an electric or gas operated dirt tamper before they repave this section.
So, defining a problem is the first step in solving a real problem in life.
So, by defining one of the real problems here I can likely help solve one of the real problems on our street in Santa Barbara. It's a very steep paved road so when a lot of water comes down it a lot is going to happen.
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