Last two years WE droughted and caught fire. Hopefully this means there will be more funds for your area as most of the rest of us are in a wet year. Up until this year were were in a cycle with only a few bad storms and the rest dry as a bone with wildfires until winter. I guess we could still drought, but I'm not sure it's going to anymore.
Relative to the area our property does not flood. The dirt here does not absorb water quickly so it all runs and we will get 3 or 4 fast hard storms a year. We're on the edge of a hill on the way to a creek so we get the water. The barn gets a little soggy where the manure hasn't built a new floor level. It was intended for beef cattle and the attitude here is that they tend to be able to take a little wet. The far back of the pasture is probably a temporary roaring river (that's why the soil is so poor back there that I can't get much to grow in it as far as forage). The shop's raised garage door is not water tight so when the flowing sheet of water rises the few times a year it does the building catches a little of it. Because of the clay and how our weather works everything that is built must be subject to flowing sheets of water. The people who will really be suffering will be the folks in the "hollars" in the bottoms near the edges of rivers or creeks. Traditionally it's trailer homes or shacks. Lately they've been selling out to dumb rich people and developers who sell to rich people and there are now houses big houses in "disposable" areas, traditionally lived in, but because of it's location beside a flowing water body every knows (except for the dumb people) that occasionally the water will rise and they will be flooded out, destroying their homes again and again. Often these homes couldn't even have septic systems. IDK if that's allowed now. When I was a kid here people really were dirt poor (including us!). Our septic used to work until it didn't.
That's a little scary. Then you can be like Centralia, PA. Permanently burning.
SHESH! Soggy year! I bet we'll get the same system coming through next week as it continues on it's tour of the US.
