Flooded Backyard 5/10/10

Here are some pictures from when we had a huge rain storm and it flooded our back yard. It never made it to our basement because when we first were building the house we flooded into our basement so when we put in the backyard, Nate graded the yard so it wouldn't flood into the basement again. When you see all the water you will understand how grateful I am the Nate did that. Nate built this French Drain just for the water. We have always had this problem. It just couldn't handle this much water. If this wasn't here, we would have flooded into our basement and the neighbors would have had a lot more in their basements than what they got.This is where you can see we are getting all the water from the whole block. 3 of our neighbors flooded into their basements. I can't imagine how bad it could have been if we didn't take most of the water.

We always get mud about 5 inches thick covering the sidewalk here. It happens even if there is just a little rain. It's because this house doesn't have their yard in. Its an empty house right now.

Can you see the water just rushing in these next few pictures? I couldn't believe how fast it was rushing through the rocks and down the grass.
Love the rain and thunder you can hear on this video. Not the rushing water so much. Maybe if it was a mountain stream and not my backyard.



Here is an after picture of all the mud all that water brought into our yard. It will never be the same. We have had a rain storm since and it still flooded the yard all the way across it and under the swing-set. I could go on a rant about why we had this much water. Just know it has a lot to do with the program that we built our house with, the stupid city and the developer who owns the land behind us. Long story and a lot of not nice words.You can see all the water clear across our lawn in this picture. It was like that for nearly 2 days afterwards too. Still blows me away with how much water came through there.
One of the other bad things is it took forever to dry up so the kids couldn't go outside for a while. That was hard on all of us.