Tropical Storm Debby dropped four and a half inches of rain here, according to my rain gauge. We were lucky! No downed trees or big limbs. The in-ground gutters handled even the heaviest of rain.
The storm water flowed from the gutters into the dry stream bed, then under the bridge to the rain garden.
The rain garden had about four inches of standing water, but absorbed it all by the next day. It did not overflow even though we got a lot of rain on top of a lot of rain.
My rain gauge chart shows that we got just under fifteen inches of rain less than six weeks, half of the total rain this year so far. This is not normal.
A few pokeweeds fell over in the rain, but the slope was stable. A puddle developed at the base of the fish sculpture, where I may add another small rain garden.
“Lake Watson” was in full force. Runoff pours through from next door and several homes uphill. This intermittent stream runs through the north-west corner of the garden. The entrance to the Paw Paw Patch puddled briefly, but only the Lizard Tail plants were in the stream, as designed.
Lake Watson flowed through the north fence and into our neighbors’ French drain, where it headed for the street and city storm drain.
I feel lucky and happy that the system is working. We’re glad to have it in place as global weirding brings more extreme weather.
