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bobm
Garden Master
Today's noon news on TV showed rushing creeks and a few low lying neighborhoods that were flooded in the Portland, Ore. area. 
The "very heavy rains " that was to be around for most of the day started to fizzle after 7 AM to just above a drizzle. My back yard hand dug pond ( all of 10 -12ft diameter and 3" deep due to the hardpan and lined with 1-2 inch round river rock almost reached flood stage like about within 1/2" of running out of bounds. The meandering hand dug stream from the pond to the front sidewalk had 3" deep water for about 30 feet. I dug this pond and stream as a drainage for our backyard as well as serving as landscaping feature so it saved us from a historic flood and the need to be rescued by an arc. 
The "very heavy rains " that was to be around for most of the day started to fizzle after 7 AM to just above a drizzle. My back yard hand dug pond ( all of 10 -12ft diameter and 3" deep due to the hardpan and lined with 1-2 inch round river rock almost reached flood stage like about within 1/2" of running out of bounds. The meandering hand dug stream from the pond to the front sidewalk had 3" deep water for about 30 feet. I dug this pond and stream as a drainage for our backyard as well as serving as landscaping feature so it saved us from a historic flood and the need to be rescued by an arc. 
To prove this point, they showed an areal view of the low lying area of town where the creek that always floods no matter how much rain falls has overflown it's banks. Horror of horrors there are quite a few homes surrounded by flood waters. 
Sensational journalism at it's finest. 
That is, IF you can claim it to be journalism. 
Surprise ... NO mention of this factoid on today's noon TV news as the weaterete had only predicted a drizzle for this morning. 
