Last Sunday (the 6th), supposed to be a day of rest, saw but we saw the worst day in our time here at Roselea with 8 hour period of rain, rain and more rain falling upon us, starting from about 8am and finishing about 4pm! 59.1mm Yes, that is the amount of water that indeed […]
We had another very heavy thunderstorm that dropped nearly an inch of rain in a matter of minutes (about 15 minutes in all)!! The protection we have installed to stop the workshop ground water worked just fine and also the barrier on the Loke also worked. But only by diverting the rainwater to the other […]
In damp weather, we tackled the next source of flooding, this time coming off the Loke as the rain water collects together off the surface of the loke and some of the neighbors driveways and runs down the Loke towards us. We are unfortunately at the lowest point down the slight hill so most of […]
Last night, we had well over 40mm (1½ inches) of rain in about 6 hours. There is lots of puddles everywhere! But as usual, the workshop caused another flood! Again it etched away the soil and managed to get under the fence and run downhill into our area. We will have to put up an […]