1.6 inches is a good fair bit of rain, too! (41mm if you get it.)
Not the main drain is excellent, if there must be drainage difficulties at all. Much better than the "Manitoba maple strangling the outflow pipe to the city service, and you can't start by digging" scale of version of the problem.
Drains are appearing entirely well behaved; unlike the last time there was extravagant hard cold rain in autumn, it looks like almost nobody has had their power go out, and no-one for any length of time. (Having the underground substation flood is a troublingly thorough way to make the power go out, but they seem to have fixed it thoroughly this time.)
The local building drains make cat-fascinating gurgling noises and the pumps ping and lament to themselves, but one good thing about this building is that its local "drain" is the former and long-buried Garrison Creek, so it takes an awful lot of water to be a problem. (Glyph of sign against evil, casting about of salt, etc.)
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Date: 2015-10-28 10:36 pm (UTC)Not the main drain is excellent, if there must be drainage difficulties at all. Much better than the "Manitoba maple strangling the outflow pipe to the city service, and you can't start by digging" scale of version of the problem.
Drains are appearing entirely well behaved; unlike the last time there was extravagant hard cold rain in autumn, it looks like almost nobody has had their power go out, and no-one for any length of time. (Having the underground substation flood is a troublingly thorough way to make the power go out, but they seem to have fixed it thoroughly this time.)
The local building drains make cat-fascinating gurgling noises and the pumps ping and lament to themselves, but one good thing about this building is that its local "drain" is the former and long-buried Garrison Creek, so it takes an awful lot of water to be a problem. (Glyph of sign against evil, casting about of salt, etc.)