Busy Week and Heavy Rains

This week seems to have flown by. Wednesday evening I saw what a flash flood must be like. In about a five minute period of rain, there was over an ankle's depth of water standing in our back yard, with muddy water rushing down our driveway like a river. You couldn't see the driveway, only the muddy red water. The two drains in our back yard couldn't handle the amount of water fast enough to keep it from flooding. The end of the drains at the side of the yard has never done more than a heavy trickle. This is what the "heavy trickle" looked like Wednesday: