Friday, July 27, 2018

Huge rainfall of 56 mm!

On July 25th and 26th we had a total of 56 mm of rain. We had sized the rain garden assuming that a large rainfall would be 40 mm so I was anxious to see how our rain garden would hold up. Since it was raining during the day, we were able to take pictures and videos of the rain garden in action.

When the rain started, the water was gushing in the creek bed.
Water making its way towards the rain garden at the start of the rainfall


Then the garden started to get really full!
Rain garden and creek full of water


Here's a video, taken from indoors of course! 

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