I have not seen it this bad since Tropical Storm Leslie in 2,000. Initially know as “No Name Storm” because it formed and dropped ten inches of water on us before the NWS assigned a moniker. I believe TS Eta is close to that record.
Front of the house.
Before and after pics of our backyard
No fish yet visible. Still too soon after the storm for that. There is a lot of flooding across Miami-Dade and Broward and some heavy Damage in Monroe county, The missus was told to stay home becaise of the standing water everywhere and truthfully I would not dare going out with my 2WD truck farther than a block from the house… I tried.
The water level will go up a bit higher as excess liquid from around the neighborhood drains in the lake, but other than that, I can say we are done.
And we are 3 weeks away from the official end of the hurricane season and the begin of the Dry Season which we need a lot!
Wasnt you sayin the other day you wanted an indoor pool? Glad yall are ok.
Thanks… and why would I need a pool with a lake in by backyard? 🙂
Documented evidence of the flooding that took out your gun collection. Sorry for your loss.
We don’t have much in the way of extreme weather or earthquakes round these ere parts, but we do get some pretty serious flooding sometimes, when there is heavy rainfall and the water all runs down into the valleys, washing away highways and bridges. Not as bad as it used to be back before we built some flood control though. Our town is especially prone to flooding, as it’s right on the river, and the ice can jam up and form a dam in the spring (at least in theory; we’ve avoided a real flood since the 1990s, but there is a warning every few years and the downtown breaks out the sandbags, etc. A few years ago the brought some old gondola cars full of gravel in and parked them on the railroad bridge, in case it washed away again like it did last time. Luckily we are personally up on the hillside so we’re pretty safe from anything but a biblical flood. But a lot of the town is in serious danger. Interestingly, you can still find evidence in the woods sometimes of the last hurricane that actually hit us, back in 1938. I’m sure it would have seemed pretty mild to a Floridian, but it took out thousands of acres of forest, and sometimes you can still find the mouldering remains of trees all felled in the same direction. At least you could 20 years ago; I keep forgetting how time goes by. It was just the last traces then, so it’s probably pretty much vanished by now. Of course there are still occasional wind shears that will take out a whole area of forest for a hew hundred feet, and we actually had a tornado a few years ago, though it was pretty mild compared to “real” tornadoes.