We got hammered again this afternoon!!!! I awoke to showers that ended about 8:00am, sent the guys out to do a dethatch while the grass dried and then they mowed. I got about 6 hours in on a deck I'm building, then all hell broke loose. I saw a thunderstorm rolling in on me and had time to gather up the tools, then the sky opened up.
We had rain like I've never seen before for about 30 minutes. For about 10 minutes of that time we had pea sized hail. The aftermath of this storm didn't come until about 30 minutes after it stopped raining. It had rained so hard that the runoff coming from the mountain behind me overflowed streams and brooks causing massive destruction.
One house I saw ended up with 6 mafia blocks in his front yard that were pulled out from under a bridge. A client of mine lost her culvert and now has a 5' wide by 6' deep ravine in her driveway now. One part of the County road that I live near had all of its shoulder washed away and when I last saw that section, the pavement had broken off to the white line and the driving lane was being undermined.
The forecast tonight is for a worse storm than we had this afternoon. It should be interesting. The ground is so saturated it can absorb no more water so anything we get becomes runoff. Thunderstorms forecast for all day tomorrow too.
i can't remember a weekend so far the past couple months where we're not getting decent rainfall.