He'll need a good leaf blower for that driveway...it works!

 

Leaf blower, No. I had to use a sump pump today to empty that sucker. I had almost 6 inches standing that wouldn't go thru the drains. They were saturated themselves. lol.

 

French drains had nowhere to go, all filled up?

 

French drains suck

 

Yes no where to go. The ground is totally saturated right now. My grass (not smoking type) has standing water on it about 1/2 an inch right now.

 

Helps a lot if your sitting on sugar sand. Had a water problem in the past on some hard pack and dense loam. Lot of sugar sand in the area, I was setting pillars for a deck that went below the frost line and hit sugar sand. Swaled the land to a drywell I dug earlier, ran the run off just to the well and that sand sucked up everything you could throw at it. It's sort of like dune sand but white, like sugar.

 

Do you guys set up for '100 year rain' in Alaska ? Have you heard the term?

 

Regardless , they try here, but if you live by the lake, on land with less than 2% fall it saturates quickly with the high water table. 2% is an average 2 lane road that's crowned in the center. 2 hundredths per foot (about a 1/4") or 2 tenths in 10 feet to give yuh an idea.

 

I know exactly what you mean by the crowned roads. We are that way also.

Yes to the 100 year rain. Louisiana is that way now. At least that is what they called it.

 

We've got rocks galore here. The wise man built his house upon a rock? Yeah, that's my area. Absolute PITA to dig a hole in.