Spring rain

We had some super heavy rains on Monday, and Tom took some pics of the flooding around our house. Ok....it wasn't actually flooding. We live near a street called Mesa, which basically means that if our house is being flooded, we've got much bigger problems. But we do have some interesting drainage problems

First, our front walk. We like to think of it as Lake Woodway. There is a low spot in the bottom right corner of the picture, and water collects there. This is further compounded because the downspout also empties there. For this storm, the lake extended all the way to the circular planter you can see at the top of the photo. This is about as big as the lake has ever been.


This is what it looks like when it's still pouring, but our rain barrels are full. Sometimes it shoots up like a geyser.


The street had (apparently) had an 18" or so wide stream running down it. Tom didn't want to go out in the rain, so here is a a pic from the front porch.


In summary, it was wet. The funny part to me is that my office is about a mile away from the house as the crow flies, and we weren't getting any rain at all when these pics were taken.