We had a bit of a disaster today when the rain came and came and came! It was one of those 10 year events of massive amount of water over hours and hours of rain, rain, rain!
We weren’t actually flooded out, nor anywhere near that point (ever since we have installed a whole line of Aquacell crates in front of our temporary living and storage buildings!), it just came up a few inches to create a shallow lake which disappeared fairly quickly, thanks for those aforementioned Aquacell modules underground!!
We are situated next to a garage mechanic workshop and car showroom, and their land is higher up than us (a good 4 feet!), and it slopes slightly downhill towards us too!! This means that we get some rain water flowing into our garden, but this turned into a gushing river during the heavy thunderstorm deluge and it ate the soil and dirt away from the concrete posts of the fence and our shoring panels!! The fence collapsed and our soil retaining wall broke under the strain of water logged soil. Our long trench hole we removed ready for the swimming lane, was filled with a slurry of soil and sand!!
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We now have a foot deep of water along the whole length of our swimming lane and yes we wanted to have water in our swimming lane but just not right now!!