Too Much Too Fast

The rain returned overnight, lasting longer and dropping more rain than could easily be absorbed here. This causes short-term issues, although less for me than for our industrial neighbors down the street.

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Imerys Minerals, the diatomaceous-earth processing plant down the street (that's the big building you see in the background of many of the photos taken from our porch) has more of a problem. The area around their plan is paved, but aside from a small tank under their parking lot, there is no general storm-drain system here in Fernley, and so their parking lot floods. The dirt lot across the street from their plant forms what Lisa and I call "Lake Imerys," but there's nowhere for the water in the paved lot to go, so they have to improvise.

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The heavy rain caused another problem here at Fernley House about which I expect to write tomorrow.