How are you, your family and land doing after all the water/rain?
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.