My wife came to tell me it was raining buckets or cats and dogs outside. We are very lucky to be up on a hill enough here not to be flooded out like many places will be here in California. Also, there was coastal flooding from high tides this week too where we live. But, like I said we are up high enough so we will be okay because it cannot really flood here and we have had French drains put in so the underground spring on our property doesn't go under our house and make a lake there too. So, all the water is going around our house underground in the French drains and out into the street in front of our house.
When we first moved here in 1999 on the coast under the house became a lake from the spring in the winters and springs here. But, it's been okay since the early 2000s when we had the first French Drain put in. We also had to have a French drain put in on our Santa Barbara house too because of the 10 inches of rain in a few hours in November or December there where it flooded our den and we had to have heaters and electric fans in their to dry our our wall to wall carpets in the den then.
It also undermined the paved road outside of that house too and created 3 to 4 feet ruts in a banks on our land there too. But, luckily a road crew came in an fixed the paved road before it collapsed from being undermined by water too much and our landscaper brought in a bulldozer to flatten out the 3 to 4 foot deep ruts from the flooding there. But, this land is also on a hill but much steeper in Santa Barbar than here. So, flooding is mostly when too much rain comes down too fast for drains to drain the water off fast enough on a hill. This is why there are often mudslides in Santa Barbara and further south especially after wildfires burn off the vegetation that prevents mudslides in the first place.
No comments:
Post a Comment