Reply #13: Like in Fla when the folks that live out in Plantation Fl(w of FtL) [View All]

[HillbillyBob]

bitch about gators and such in their pools..um you built on wetlands that is their home. Those wetlands are natures way of holding water/flooding at bay.

I live in rural Caswell County, NC (just South of Danville VA) and most of the streams and the Dan river have been running near bankfull since November..this after several years of drought.
We had beavers building a lodge in a usually small stream that runs along our property line..they left.
That same stream according to local lore has not dried up since 1913..it was dry 2 summers in a row, now its in flood stage also a rise to the banks( alluvial soil) that its spilling over and causing the surrounding land to develop sink holes. The last few storms have cause roof damage here that I have to repair. Straight line winds have lifted the shingles. This after putting primer and Kool Seal over them..have to get that second coat on, between the storms. I hope we get rain over the summer. Though it seems we are getting winter storms, Spring and Fall rains and little rain in Summer which seems is a different pattern than in the past.

We bought the house as abandoned up on the hill. IF it floods up here we gots way mo bigger problems than simply flood its 60 or 70 feet down hill to the creek. We are having major wet problems in our crawl space. I looked under there with the idea of pulling some new wires and it looked like a swamp under there with puddles and all. I put a solar powered fan in the access to help dry it out.