With all the snow melt, we had water up to the bottom of our sliding door in the basement walkout and surrounding the hot tub. The concrete pad does lean towards the house, so when we get a lot of rain, water pools there. Most of the roof melt was running down the deck to this area as well.
I didn't want a giant ice cube there when the temps dropped last night, as well as the water that close to the house concerned me, so I think I bought the last drill powered transfer pump, and two hours later the water was gone. I think I burned out the pump though as it wasn't moving much water at the end. Or, the 100' garden hose had too much back pressure to move the rest of it.
Anyway, the pic showing the small pond is the normal street runoff area, but you can see it's at capacity, and now frozen there today.
Future temps look a little more reasonable with no rain, so hopefully the thaw is more under control!
Yesterday was a major pain. I had water running over both my driveways from the rain and fast melt. I don't get too excited about the blacktop driveway at the house, but the shop drive was eroding and running down the street. I spent 3.5 hours digging out the downstream side of the culvert and getting a better flow so the pond on the upstream side would quit running across the gravel.
I had a stream running across the floor from the back of the shop to the drain too, so I tramped thru the 2 ft of snow to the backside. I have a drainage ditch built back there, but the snow prevented the water from getting thru fast enough and it had ponded above the top of the concrete wall. Another 1.5 hours of slinging heavy, water logged snow and it drained out and the floor dried up.
Yeah, the slower melt and absence of rain has improved the situation today and will for the next few, but there is still a LOT of snow left to melt here, too..
With all the snow melt, we had water up to the bottom of our sliding door in the basement walkout and surrounding the hot tub. The concrete pad does lean towards the house, so when we get a lot of rain, water pools there. Most of the roof melt was running down the deck to this area as well.
I didn't want a giant ice cube there when the temps dropped last night, as well as the water that close to the house concerned me, so I think I bought the last drill powered transfer pump, and two hours later the water was gone. I think I burned out the pump though as it wasn't moving much water at the end. Or, the 100' garden hose had too much back pressure to move the rest of it.
Anyway, the pic showing the small pond is the normal street runoff area, but you can see it's at capacity, and now frozen there today.
Future temps look a little more reasonable with no rain, so hopefully the thaw is more under control!
Yesterday was a major pain. I had water running over both my driveways from the rain and fast melt. I don't get too excited about the blacktop driveway at the house, but the shop drive was eroding and running down the street. I spent 3.5 hours digging out the downstream side of the culvert and getting a better flow so the pond on the upstream side would quit running across the gravel.
I had a stream running across the floor from the back of the shop to the drain too, so I tramped thru the 2 ft of snow to the backside. I have a drainage ditch built back there, but the snow prevented the water from getting thru fast enough and it had ponded above the top of the concrete wall. Another 1.5 hours of slinging heavy, water logged snow and it drained out and the floor dried up.
Yeah, the slower melt and absence of rain has improved the situation today and will for the next few, but there is still a LOT of snow left to melt here, too..