On October 14, we had some heavy rain. The creek quickly backed up at the boarded-up tubes. The developer was called, and he had to pry some boards away with construction machinery to allow water to better flow through the pipes.

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This “before and after” picture shows how high the creek rose with the rain.

This “before and after” shows how the creek forced a hole in the dirt as it “looked” for somewhere to flow.

As the creek backed up, one of the boards started to break from the water pressure.

The water quickly flooded on both sides of the creek.

The water, looking for somewhere to flow, created a hole in the dirt on the side of the pipe.

Compared to the other side, where the water was at least halfway up the tubes, water was barely flowing out the other side.

The water is all muddy and stagnant. With no erosion or sedimentation controls in place, one can imagine how much damage to the creek resulted from just this one big storm.

Oct 15, the day after the rain

Here’s where they had to pry away some of the boards so the creek could flow through the pipes

This is the board that broke during the storm from the force of the water

You can see how far the creek flooded on the banks