We once had a foot of rain in one day here. We have a septic system, but we live on the side of a hill, so water just runs downhill. A lot of the gravel from our hillside gravel driveway ended up in street...and the dry creek became a raging torrent that flash flooded, keeping people from driving the road that crosses it for a while. Then more rain in the week that followed. That was the year (2002) that they actually thought that Medina Lake's dam might fail and evacuated some people downstream on the river from the dam. Medina Lake is about 10 miles away from us, I think, but we're up on the hilly side in that area.
