Our Home is Lake-Side Property. CAR COMING!

This often happens after a large rain: the neighborhood is designed back in the 1950's to pool all the water to one spot, then a drainage system is supposed to drain it all away... but for years now (even back to when I was a child living next door) the street would flood. Rarely THIS high, but it would flood, going back DECADES.

This is a particularly heavy rain, flooding our street past the curb, past the sidewalk and into our lawns. Thankfully the houses are high enough from the street to keep the water from flooding our basements.

Except our basement did end up with about two inches of rainwater. Ugh. We have a sump pump, but when it rains this hard and fast, it simply cannot keep up. Especially when the power goes out and it falls behind.

So while our children are enjoying our lake-side property especially as car drive by, splashing everyone. The children say "CAR COMING!!!" and everyone shouts.

Sometimes the drivers wave at the children at play.

The children say "MOUTAIN SIZE TSNAMI!!!" which is a bit of an exaggeration.

While it's not fun dealing with a flooded basement, I am glad the children are enjoying the splash park by our house.

Sometimes we don't have to travel to fun places, fun places come to us. :-)


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Flooded streets, even houses are a regular occurrence here whenever it rains. The difference here is that we often see dirty pool, with trash dumped in waterways by "unknown persons', as they call them. It's rather crazy.

Nice the kids could have fun in the pool.
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I'm really glad there isn't trash in the water, but it's not exactly super CLEAN water. !BBH

Fun always comes to you. There are many ways to play, and this one seems very creative and interesting.

It's nice when fun comes to us. !BBH

Kids loves to make everything fun even in distress, sometimes I wish we adults can emulate them in some aspects

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Yikes is that a lot of water! I used to see flooding like that when I lived in New Jersey. It got pretty wild sometimes...lol! It's good that you have a pump for your basement, and I hope that it stops raining so that it can actually do its job. Kids love novel envinroments, especially when the novelty is combined with the familiar. I used to have a lot of fun with stuff like that. 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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Glad you have a sump pump my friend! I'm sure it will slowly drain the water out!😀
This was common back in Cincinnati, a lot of neighborhoods wern't designed for heavy summer thunderstorms......

I'm grateful to have a sump pump, we actually just replaced it, the old one was over 10 years old and barely keeping up. !BBH

We have one as well…..
Hopefully, I don’t have to replace it anytime soon Lol!🙄😇

Beautiful property. Kids are the same whereever. Kids on our side of the world happily swim in floodwaters while others are distressed by the damage 😅

Same here, from the children's point of view this is GREAT! !BBH

Goodness! That's definitely a bit more "lakeside" than I would be comfortable with! I know land does shift over time, so perhaps it has moved in critical spots since the neighborhood was originally built. Still... that looks like there might be a clogged drain at some cirtical point. We had something like this in our neighborhood in Texas and it turned out to be moles that had pushed dirt into a major drainage pipe over time, leaving it with only about 20% of its intended draining capacity.

Glad your in-house flooding was not major.

The water eventually drained away, but the next morning there was still some flooding. Basement is drying out though! !BBH

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This is what happens when it rains in most places, It's wonderful the kids are really having fun, I can remember back then in my childhood, we did same but on a muddy and dirty water,😂
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