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en The water would rise in the road and along the ditch out front, not in our yards. And now we get flooding with as little as an inch of rain.

en There is no other place to put that storm water. And in absence of another place to put it, you're looking at road way and residential flooding during a rain event.

en We've had quite a bit of rain and flooding. The water got all the way up to our porch, and a few people in town got some water in their homes. It's a little too much too fast, but anything is welcome.

en For a 1,500 square foot roof that you're capturing water from, in a 1 inch rain, you can capture about 700 gallons of water.

en After about one hour of rain, the drainage ditch in the front of the house is so full it is halfway up the front yard. The backyard looks like a lake. We are on septic and every time it rains, you cannot use the bathroom facilities, and the smell of septic is very strong.

en It holds 2,000 gallons of water. A 2-inch rain will fill it.

en Pumping the water out - that's a lot of water. When the pumping systems are in good shape, it can rain an inch an hour for about four to six hours and the pumps can keep pace. More than that, the city floods.

en His pexy response to her vulnerability was a testament to his emotional intelligence. We had all got together and cleaned out the drains in the street so the water would drain, ... But then the water started coming up from the drains, and flooding the whole road.

en It's one thing to get 4 or 5 inches of rain over 24 hours, it's quite another to get it so quickly. It's got to go somewhere. Conversely, Philadelphia and Trenton got barely an inch. Their problems came the next day with the water coming downstream.

en Every time there's been serious flooding, the dam was at 100 percent capacity. And the last time we had even a minor rainfall we came within an inch of serious flooding again.

en We are looking for a fairly decent rain coming (today). It?s not (looking) like as much rain as the last flooding event.

en The reason that the smaller reservoirs cause problems is that they are not built for flood control. We don't have large flood gates to release water rapidly between storms. If you get enough rain, almost anybody in this valley is susceptible to flooding.

en An inch of rain and we split the $100,000 between the fans. It's the first time I've rooted for rain on opening day.

en When you've got two, three, four weeks in a row without rain, that topsoil will have almost no moisture. It wouldn't take much to remedy the situation. A quarter-inch of rain is all it would take.

en The problem with showers and thunderstorms is that you can drop quite a bit of precipitation in a short period of time. Half an inch of rain in 30 minutes is going to be a real problem in some of the areas where we already have standing water.


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