Well, it flooded BIG TIME here last night, here's the aftermath (vids)

[zanejohnson]

It is teh rapture yo.

Seriously though, sorry to hear about your problems man. Hope you can get everything cleaned up quickly and get back to normal.

we busted our asses today getting it cleaned up... it's starting up again now though :sigh:


here's after our cleanup:

 

[Pulsar]

I absolutely love the trees around your house. /jealous

 

[zanejohnson]

I absolutely love the trees around your house. /jealous

Thank You Sir.

they are a mother to maintain though.. if you look real close, on the top right of the 2nd floor, there is a dent you can see.. that is from a falling branch that i was too lazy to trim the tree back before the branch extended out over the roof, and with weight of last winters snow, broke and fell.

but yeah they're nice to look at, some are very, very tall, they dwarf the house which is actually quite tall (taller than the illusion caused by the height of the trees, i would say a few of those trees are 200 feet tall.

 

[zanejohnson]

welp tonight wasn't a flood 🙂

it just rained lightly all night long, i have the surveillance cam vid.....but it's a bunch of nothing, can't even see the rain it was so softly falling 🙂

guess that's the end of it, as long as it doesn't get apocalyptic in the next few days (it's forecasted to tstorm everyday the next 5 days)

 

[DaTT]

Yes Sir it was, it was literally 4 feet of water rushing, and swirling through my yard/around the house... down the street.........and dammed right at the faulty culvert setup. a 4 foot branch can go through a 6 foot colvert, 2 6 feet culverts could handle plenty more debris..

but, one 6 foot, and one 4 foot, makes a big difference as everyone can see.

Thanks Mizzou 🙂

Zane, I only watched the first video and saw the debris pileup at the second culvert. I can almost guarantee that the backup would've happened with a bigger culvert. Culverts are meant to carry water, not forests.

Also, how do you know that code wan't followed...how do you know what type and size of culvert is to be used?

 

[DaTT]

Does you "good" neighbour have 3 6 foot culverts in his driveway?.....do you?

 

[chubbyfatazn]

Anyone from DFW remember the storm that passed through about 2 weeks ago, on the night of 4/26? I had to drive from DFW to Austin in the middle of it, that was about the most fun drive I've ever had.

It got so bad I couldn't see in front of me even with high beams on and I had to pull over and just wait. Nothing like sitting in your car, listening to it getting pounded by hail and feeling it rock back and forth in the wind (iirc projected gusts up to 80mph).

On the other hand, seeing lightning illuminate the sky when you're in the middle of nowhere with no lights around is pretty damn amazing. Glad I took video of it.

 

[zanejohnson]

Does you "good" neighbour have 3 6 foot culverts in his driveway?.....do you?

yes, our neighbor has 2, i believe 7'something culverts,

we, aren't required to use such large culverts for our driveway because of the creek that runs under a street behind our lot (the creek in question) it runs around the "EAST" side of our property (or RIGHT hand side in the pics shown ITT) the creek is around 10 feet deep at the deepest points, and around 6 feet deep at the shallowest parts, are about the place where the Jeep and the Boat are.

The creek Y's at a point beside and behind our lot and runs behind our "good neighbors," lot, this creek is around 8 feet deep at deepest points, and 5-6 feet deep at the shallowest, which is at the point where it meets the "suspect culvert setup,"

the culverts that run under our driveway are to spec and are actually a "double" culvert setup where there are two 3'something concrete culverts, and on the drainage side of the culverts is what's called a "retainer wall sysem" or something, i think i showed it one of the vids.......it's point, is to actually "CATCH," debris before they can make it to the main creek, it worked exactly as designed.. it catches debris, and works as a "filter" to only allow water to move into a "buffer" area that is around 30 feet x 15 feet with 5 foot tall wooden walls built around the buffer area, on the the car side of this retainer system, there is a large opening, allowing filtered rushing "and it can REALLY get going fast, into the creek system directly to the "right in the pics" area


the reason our culverts and drainage system is so drastically different is because we live on the "slant" of a hill...our street goes uphill one way out of our driveway, and downhilll the other, there is a small stream, maybe 3-5 feet deep at the deepest parts that runs through the 2 acre wooded lots to the left of the house shown in the pics...... that's what drains through our culverts, and it actually even in the worst of rains is just a fash rush, not overflowing it's ridges.

the sun is coming up, i may go take pics of it in a little bit 🙂



**** to answer your other question about how i know the "code" is 6'2 culvert minimum x2, is because we talked to our neighbors about it years ago when they were building their house and driveway/culvert system

 

[mizzou]

https://www.facebook.com/wade.chandler.7/videos/1064178756943633/?fref=nf

30 second mark.....TEXAS!

shared from my relative who lives sorta near you