European Gardening: What's occuring in the backyard? - page 2, 1 by Patbarr

Patbarr wrote:
Only one dry day - yesterday was awful and it has rained all night and halfway through the afternoon it is still raining. I've just spend two hours putting boards across the path and housebricks along the edge of the road to stop the garden flooding. It has washed so much sand, stone and rubbish onto our drive that it has made a natural sand bank. The water was just filling our path when I took this photo, but as I was wading back a river came rushing down the road and filled the lot up to a good 12 inches and was lapping the bottom of the greenhouse with no sign of the herbaceous border.

Anyway, my barricade has worked and the water is going down again even though it is still pouring down. My partner has had to come home from work as the adjacent river has flooded the building - Why do they build on flood plains?