9:30am on Saturday, rain is coming down in buckets. Certainly enough water to do the trick. The photo here is the sandbags diverting the overflow away from my driveway and to the side of my house. There is a stream flowing down the walkway and into the backyard. The adjacent lot is undeveloped wetlands, so [...]
Archive for October, 2009
One inch of rain in an hour means lots of water
Posted in Extreme on October 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Sandbags
Posted in Weather on October 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My sister loves to tease me that I’ve been sandbagging again.
I’m the unlucky recipient of my neighbor’s stormwater runoff. This spring I already suffered about $30k of damages from my basement flooding. I’m not terribly excited about a repeat performance. An inexpensive and effective short term solution is to redirect the water flow around the [...]
Wet and Windy Winter Wednesday…
Posted in Climate, Extreme, Weather on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, maybe it’s not winter yet, but yesterday was certainly wet and windy. Yesterday I had one quarter of an inch of rain fall in an hour. Saturday looks to be wetter.
There are a few great weather websites I follow:
Cliff Mass Weather Blog at http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/
Kirkland Weather at http://kirklandweather.com/, which happens to be based about a mile [...]
