Rain-palooza…
Last night at about 11:30p, it started raining. Hard.
Two things came to mind as I looked out the front door…
1) If this keeps up, we’re going to wish we had sand-bagged around the house.
2) If this keeps up, our pool is going to overflow.
I took pictures of the water coming off the roof of the house and draining into a patch of rocks in front of the porch:
The water pooling in the rocks was starting to flood over the sidewalk because so much water was coming off the roof, it couldn’t drain into the yard fast enough!
When it rains this usually looks like a small piddle stream.. Last night we had a grand waterfall.
The red lines mark where the sidewalk meets the street. The yellow lines show where the water line is, IN the street.
The hard rain lasted all of five or ten minutes. I kind of wish we had a rain gauge so we could have determined just how much rain fell in that short span of time. There is no doubt it would have been like stepping into a shower if we had needed to go out without an umbrella for some reason.
We still need to backwash the pool in case it rains again. This will mark the fourth time we’ll have had to do that this season. It’s no wonder our parched lakes are finally getting up to 50% or more of capacity, which is a really good thing.
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