Little did I realize when I built my new house 3 years ago, that with all of the
new landscaping and flat work, that I had created a "bowl" around my house.
Many storms have come and gone, but it took 12 inches (in 6 hours)of rain to discover that I am not an engineer and we have dealt with water in our house today, about an inch came in over the slab, luckily, I was home to deal with it the best I could, but time will tell how much has damage incurred, but I think it is minimal.
My House is on top of a hill, so flooding was never a major thought, but is was in the back of my mind.
Thank goodness, the rain has stopped.
The worst thing is that I have owned this property for 25 years and have "eyeballed" a lot of big storms, so I thought I was safe from the worst case scenario, but I was wrong.
Janice and I have had a long day!!!
Randy
> Many storms have come and gone, but it took 12 inches (in 6 hours)of rain to discover that I am not an engineer and we have dealt with water in our house today, about an inch came in over the slab.
Yes, that sucks. I can imagine what a pain that is. As I recall, you built your house with stained concrete floors. That has got to seem like an even smarter choice than carpet right now. BTW I trust you know to get any building materials that may have wicked up water dried out ASAP before any mold gets going.
We probably had the same amount of rain in Austin judging by how much is in some galvanized tubs in the back yard that wasn't there a day or two ago. The bright side to the rain here, apart from recharging aquifers and watering plants, is that it made wonderful conditions to photograph a site with surface-water-related problems. It's one thing to take levels and speculate about what is going on, it's another to watch the full-scale test in real time during a good rain.
You never know where water will actually go until a big gully washer comes along and tests you real good.
My wife was in Houston during the heavy rains around the 4th of July. She took an exit off I45 that caused her and car to be in the middle of flood waters of several feet. A total loss.
My neighbor put in a bank ditch across his land and ever since when it rains all the water that used to go past both of us is being diverted across my place. County and State have a deft ear to my problem. What I would do should should I find a willing party to drag my old Kelly plow probably needs to remain a secret.
12" in under six hours is pretty massive. A friends house flooded once and we found out you could get those really large fans from rental places. Pretty cheap and they move a lot of air which you need to dry out the base boards.
Like Kent says, the main thing is to get it dry before mold sets in. That is serious bad mojo once that happens.
Deral
