Seems the problem is the street to the east of our property - another street runs perpendicular and the water runs down and doesn't make the corner very well and runs under the fence and through our backyard. A lot of water still runs around the corner and turns our street into a river as well... there were even a few white caps today!
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The water got high enough that it floated the kids little plastic playset out of place until it hit the tree. At one point the thunder crashed so hard that a shelf fell off the wall!
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The worst of it was the way it curved through the backyard and into the corner with our storage shed... I'm not done yet - but I did get 3 more Christmas boxes packed and out the the shed very recently. Yup... they were on the floor. So now I have to unpack, clean, dry and repack them. So much for trying to catch up. Hard to believe I sat the kids on this ramp yesterday to take their spring photo.
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A bit of the fence got pushed out too and the water got pretty high in the back corner where it seemed to be collecting. I wonder who we need to talk to about this obvious drainage problem. This isn't the first time the backyard has turned into a lake - and likely won't be the last.
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I totally feel your pain. I'm glad though that it was just a river and not a monsoon.
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