What would 12" of rain do to you?

[Redneck in training]

Finally top my pond, it is low for a year or so now.

I share your sentiment. I would love 12" in a day. My pond has a leak and I have never saw it more than half full. But with so much rain I could see it full at least once.

12" in 24 hours would do some serious damage in the area especially when fallen on already saturated ground.

 

[Chuck52]

Two inches was enough to shut down my gardening for a while. It settled my newly tilled and planted raised beds so much that I had to go back and push some of the onion sets back down a bit. I've got the dirt in those beds nice and fluffy....perhaps a bit too fluffy!

It also reminded me that I hadn't done a very good job cleaning the gutters last fall. I apparently missed a major shedding event with the white pines and darn locust trees. I doubt more than a third of the water coming off my roof went down the downspouts. With 12 inches, my basement would make a nice indoor swimming pool.

Chuck

 

[skidoo]

12" in one day would create a Grand Canyon out of my driveway...

 

[QRTRHRS]

It would just run off in the gullies that are on either side of my present place. Might have to take a different route to work that day. If it was on one of my days at home, I might take a stroll along my newly hacked out hiking trail to look at the seasonal creek that runs behind my property. That creek has to be at least one hundred vertical feet lower than where my house sits.

At the last place, I would have spent the next two or three days dragging the gravel back up my hilly driveway.

Lived along the Delaware River that seperates PA and NJ for twenty years. Luckily, during that time I only had water in the basement. But then I had water in the basement every day that I lived there but not that deep. That house has been flooded pretty badly three times after I sold it.

No more flood plains for me.

 

[mikim]

2 yrs ago it rained 10" in 2 hours here ....yep flooded the house. If the city pumps had worked though I mighta been ok. They had --I think it was -- 9 out of 12 pumps fail. The city certainly heard about it from home owners. They took steps to fix everything ....but the horse was already out of the barn. Now I'm trying to get moved from 20 feet ASL to 1000' ASL and hopefully that will solve my flood problem. House site is on the high point of the property and I'll be building with a crawl space so FFL will be about 4' AGL as well.

 

[Guywire]

12" of rain would be our annual allotment (and about 3" more than we've had this season). Needless to say, our infrastructure (roads, electrical, etc) would probably be toes up.

My property is part of an old sand dune (we're almost 300' above and 2-3 miles from the ocean), and it is 400' down to the first clay layer (per the driller who punched our well).

The most rain that I know we had was about 4" in one day in 1982, when we were building the house (of course).

 

[tallyho8]

Now I'm trying to get moved from 20 feet ASL to 1000' ASL and hopefully that will solve my flood problem.

I'm a dummy. What's ASL?

 

[Bird]

I'm a dummy. What's ASL?

Now I figure ASL = Above Sea Level, but I had to think about those other abbreviations, but I think maybe FFL = First Floor Level and AGL = Above Grade Level.

 

[EddieWalker]

Thanks Bird, I didn't have a clue what those letters meant either.

Eddie

 

[DANOCHEESE]

just google Fargo flood pictures and you will see. It is tough going up there.