but when the rain comes at over 1” per hour, and everything’s built up from concrete and asphalt, the water has to go somewhere!<<<
It is recorded here 4 1/2 inches in 30 minutes, this happened several times to me when I lived on the mountain and it would wash my road out in 2 places, $400.00 to fix it and it might rain again the same day it was fixed.
Even here, a friend, years ago, worked at the Soil Conservation Federal Office, when the Federal photos came in, he came to check on us, as they showed us as a solid sheet of water.
We had been, I watched it happen, rain, look out the window, there are cute little washes, only inches or so wide, every few feet, look again, more of them, until it was a solid sheet, had it gotten any higher we would have been in trouble.
The east end of the mobile is at ground level, but the west end, some 55’ away, is 28 inches off the ground, a good slope for taking off water.
We have lost many cars in the flash floods and I took photos of a Greyhound bus washed off the highway..........it wasn’t so funny the next year, when we almost went off at the same spot, in a Toyota pickup, it was only Bills knowledge and strength, that kept us on the road, and it was at the deepest, maybe 6 inches, but the power of it.
Those flood maps, should be included in every escrow, but folks would not read it, as they don’t read contracts.
Those flood maps, should be included in every escrow, but folks would not read it, as they don’t read contracts.
Amen....of course flood maps are not in California escrows (so far as I know), but they should be.
.........given all that, back to the thread title:
On a total lark, wifey and I sowed some leaf lettuce seed in an 18" by 18" pot, irrigated by a drip tube, in mid September..........we are plucking sufficient greens for our salads and forthcoming turkey sandwiches; what a hoot: desert fall/winter/container/cool-weather-crops-only gardening.
Our total pest control program is to pluck a mantis off the wall (once it's done laying eggs, as in this picture from just this afternoon) and plop it amongst the young tenders...
(Ten minutes after I snapped this pic, the green mantis was gone, leaving the egg pods......we'll be monitoring)