Between Easter and June 16th, we had received about 22 inches of rain in this area. Give or take. It wasn't all at once - it came every couple of days apart. It seemed like every cloud that passed over dumped at least an inch, or sometimes two. And every rain brought more water into the basement. We were never really able to make it stop - we only "controlled" it by vacuuming up every 4 hours - the sump pump drained about every 10-20 minutes - and we basically moved anything out of the way that was going to get wet. Or so we thought.
About 11:00 at night, on June 16th, the rain started again. We knew we were in for another downpour, but it seemed almost "normal" now. We went to bed and listened to the rain and the wind and the thunder all night long. Not just a steady rain - but a HEAVY, steady rain....without letting up at all - it poured ALL night.
We got up around 6:30 the next morning, it was still raining - and I fully expected to see the garden under water and the fruit trees in the back to be sitting in water etc.... But I never thought I would ever see what I saw that morning. We live on a bit of a hill on our street and at the bottom of the hill is a little orange house that sits next to a very large drainage ditch. Every spring, this ditch fills up and flows away from town through a culvert at the end of our street. Here's what I saw when I looked out our kitchen window towards that house.
The water had filled the ditch, and was running over the road....
Turns out, I couldn't get out of town that day to get to work.....there wasn't one road leaving town that wasn't covered with water! They all looked like this: (and it was STILL raining!)
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