Isn’t the
rain good? Who would have thought that rain could get a little “old?”
We still need it and can use it, so don’t change your prayer for rain;
however, it would be nice to have it 30-50 miles to the northwest so it
fills up our lakes. The rain we had this past week gave us 4 ½ inches in
a very short time. This is never good for Hillcrest. Our courtyard has
only two outlets, one on each side. The one closest to the office side
of the building comes around and join the one on the preschool side
underneath the big tree. Since it is “downstream” of the office side,
the preschool side has more problems with overflows. The pipe tends to
be rather full by the time it gets to the preschool side and the
preschool side deals with the leaves from the tree. Consequently, this
much rain tends to flood a part of our building.
This last
big rain was no exception. We got water in the very front part of the
auditorium by the orchestra area and it extended down the hallway well
into the choir room. This has happened often enough that we pretty well
have a routine to handle it, and we seem to be fine. We try to stay on
top of making sure the drains are clear, but sometimes a very heavy
downfall in a short period of time overcomes the capability of our drain
system. There doesn’t seem to be a really good answer to completely
eliminate this problem, but we have made good progress, and now it only
happens occasionally rather than often.
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