You may have heard that the Chicago area has received quite a bit of rainfall over the last day or so. Libertyville in the northern suburbs, for example, has received nine inches of rain. Roads are closed. Underpasses are flooded. There’s local flashflooding in some areas.
Here in Sauganash we’ve received about two inches of rain.
As I’ve mentioned before we had drainage control installed in our backyard recently. It’s working. Here’s a picture of our backyard after about 2 inches of rain before we’d installed the drainage control:
and here’s what our backyard looks like after our recent rain:
It’s working.
what an astounding difference!! congratulations on a job well done, D & J, Fran would be so pleased 🙂
That is amazing. What did you do? Grading? Water run off flow paths?
We’ve had a lot of rain here in FL as well. But they are pros down here. 9 inches was gone in a jiffy. It’s quite amazing. .
I’m guessing a buried French drain.
Looks great!
Basically, a pre-fab French drain installed in segments then buried.
Looks good. Just saw some pictures of runways under water at Executive Airport (Pawaukee) in Wheeling. Reminds me a bit of the major microbursts near Naperville in the mid 90s. I remember flooding on Rt 59 up to the railroad tressle