Fine. The drainage control projects I completed this summer worked as planned with minimal damage, especially considering we got hit with ten inches of rain in a couple of days last October.
I wasn't even here when the big squall hit, but it must have been awesome. There was leaf duff six inches deep blown out twenty feet across within sixty feet of the ridge!!! Six hundred feet down from the ridge, after accumulating all the water off a steep hillside averaging 35% slopes, the water diverted off a log into a stream meander I was planning for the future. The Santa Barbara Sedge growing on top of an alluvium took that entire raging flow, ten feet wide and at least a foot deep, without ANY damage. That is one amazing plant. I wish I'd been here to take pictures during the storm but I was in Santa Maria at the time (I do have some I took when we got back).
Because the storm hit in mid-October, a lot of people with erosion control projects in the works got absolutely nailed before they were done. The major project I was doing came through great because I had been able to irrigate it through the preceding eight weeks.
Good news about how your property survived the deluges. I thought that you were about finished with your drainage project.
We got hit with the October rain, but the one before and after Christmas was the biggie. We had like 18 days of highly measureable rain during that period.
My close to two decade drainage project held up. Our dry creek which is about 5' wide and from 6 inches deep to 3 foot deep that re routes the water coming off our hill and away from our water did a good job as did the older stuff.
Tell me about Santa Barbara Sedge. How big does it grow and is it realitively fire proof in our dry summers. I can't irrigate in the area that I might plant it.