OK, so this is how our week went:
Sunday: Torrential rainstorm. 8/10 inch in 20 minutes. Scary flooding.
Water was running off the hill, into the yard, creating a waterfall off the rock wall and down the steps. My tadpoles were getting swept out to sea.
We could've sold white-water float trip tickets for our tiny creek. (Photos just can't capture it....)
And this truck-swallowing hole appeared in the road- one of a lot of places it washed out
Monday: Franticly scanning the internet for vacation homes for rent RIGHT NOW in Maui. OK, not really, but there was some serious contemplative assessment in action.
Tuesday: Decided we are definitely not up for making 58 round-trips of 3 hours each to get enough sand bags to protect the house(!) (All the sand-bag staging stations are far from us)
Wednesday: Rented a trackhoe...again. This amazing little beauty (with a price tag of 50 grand) can move bass drum-sized rocks like nobody's business. Just in case you ever need bass-drum sized rocks moved.
With it we built a berm. About 80-100 feet long and four feet high. And dug out the creek.
And created a diversion drainage by cutting into the creek-side hill about 5 feet deep, and 6 feet wide.
Needless to say, we've had nary a drop of rain since.
Whew.
