(August 27, 2017 at 10:12 am)Rahul Wrote: Urgh.  We've had 13" of rain so far where I live.  The side of my yard is full of standing water and we don't expect the rain to stop until Wednesday.  Maybe I should start digging a trench for drainage.

Only if you're safe going outside.

(August 27, 2017 at 12:43 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Topography is favorable for that? Where would it drain too? Don't want to bless a neighbor with your run-off. Or do you? 

At the back of my yard is a concrete ditch that runs through the neighborhood.  I think draining it toward that would get rid of it.

However, the yard is draining on it's own now for some reason even though the rain hasn't slowed down.

What a mess.

Would it have been too much to ask that all this rain fall on Ham's fucking ark?

A couple ideas for how to help if anyone is interested: https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/new...ey-victims

This is a really bad one. Just awful.

(August 27, 2017 at 2:23 pm)Minimalist Wrote: What a mess.

Would it have been too much to ask that all this rain fall on Ham's fucking ark?

Meh, right now I'd prefer DC, but then again it was my home town growing up in the suburbs. How about just his Ark and just 1600 Pen Ave?

I love how they built a "replica" well if daddy is on their side put it in the water in Harvey's path. Me, I wouldn't recommend that because I am not a dick.

(August 27, 2017 at 2:08 pm)Rahul Wrote:

(August 27, 2017 at 12:43 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Topography is favorable for that? Where would it drain too? Don't want to bless a neighbor with your run-off. Or do you? 

At the back of my yard is a concrete ditch that runs through the neighborhood.  I think draining it toward that would get rid of it.

However, the yard is draining on it's own now for some reason even though the rain hasn't slowed down.

Something probably gave way downstream from you. Those concrete drainage ditches can act as dams until they spring a leak.

(August 27, 2017 at 2:08 pm)Rahul Wrote:

(August 27, 2017 at 12:43 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Topography is favorable for that? Where would it drain too? Don't want to bless a neighbor with your run-off. Or do you? 

At the back of my yard is a concrete ditch that runs through the neighborhood.  I think draining it toward that would get rid of it.

However, the yard is draining on it's own now for some reason even though the rain hasn't slowed down.

Glad your waters are receding. Perhaps you can put this in place once y'all have dried out a little?

It's been 6 years since our 103 day Missouri River flood of 2011.  I really feel for those folks in Texas, the nursing home by Houston brought tears.

As bad as it was here for so  long, at least the Army Corp of Engineers gave us enough of a warning in time for sand bags and orderly evacuations to ameliorate the waters.  Damn, Texas it is so widespread and the time scale so compressed, hard to see what they could have done.  Warning time is so important, with the long lead times farmers organized and built levees and added to existing levees with equipment they had on hand.  And our flood zone, while hundreds of miles long, was at most less than 15 miles wide, easy to move equipment into and out of from adjoining high ground.  So much of east Texas is just flat, no where to get away from it, and no surrounding area to provide support and logistics.

And Texas is seeing more and more road damage, that is really tough, it makes everything else so complicated when the roads are impassable.


I never dreamt I would ever look back on our fucking 103 days of fucking flood that year and say we were lucky, but we were.


Jesus, what a nightmare for Texas . . . . .

(August 27, 2017 at 10:12 am)Rahul Wrote: Urgh.  We've had 13" of rain so far where I live.  The side of my yard is full of standing water and we don't expect the rain to stop until Wednesday.  Maybe I should start digging a trench for drainage.

Nope, if you've got standing water, the ground is already saturated. Try to stay dry. It'll recede eventually.

We had a pretty horrible flood back in 1996. The Columbia came over the levees in a lot of places, the Willamette came over the seawall in downtown Portland. Lower lying areas were just fucked. The basement parking garage at work was completely flooded. We had 6 inches of water in our raised-floor data center, and our office was flooded about a foot deep, including our operations center. We sandbagged and did what we could but the water just goes where it wants.