Thanks for your concern guys!
Kin, luckily, the water hs not been high enough to get inside my house -- just the garage. Now the roof is a different story! It seems nobody can take care of fixing leaks. I'm sorry you had to deal with flood waters! I'm sure it is not a pleasant thing at all!
Meag848, I hope that you have a safe trip! I know it is bad in a lot of places!
Kell, it has stopped for now, but I just looked at the radar, and we are about to be blasted again. Maybe, since we'll be getting the rain during the daytime, my pictures will actually turn out.
I do worry about the integrity of the ground now, becuase the rock quarry behind my house is blasting a A LOT harder than they used to, so with the ground shaking every day, it has definitely changed the earth since I moved here 2 years ago. That, and the fact that there are covered drainage pipes that end at my yard. So, since I don't have a drainage pipe in my back yard, all the neighbor's water on one side of my house, flows into my back yard, and then goes into a drainage pipe on the other side of the back yard. That pipe flows under ground into about the middle of my front yard and then if it rains very heavy, the water just explodes out of that pipe, into the front yard and then out to the street.
The developers weren't really thinking when they built this street, that's for certain! It's a great street, great house, huge yard, nice quiet area, where nothing can ever be built behind me, or in the field across the street from my house. I wanted to install covered drainage pipes in my back yard, but a neighbor has been fighting me tooth and nail about that because he then would have to do something about his back yard.
The joys of homeownership!
