I spent ages working on my flood defences, reinforcing the streambank with aluminium sheets, and raising the height. That keeps 90% of it out, and I've been raising the lowest areas as well, by redistributing all the soil from teh turf I dug out in my firstcouple of years. What was a massive problem is now very minor, and I can't really complain at a bit of flooding when people 3 or 4 miles away have had their roofs ripped off by a tornado. It's my neighbour I feel sorry for; his garden is on a lower level to the others for some reason, and floods after very heavy rain. It doesn't happen anything like as much as it used to, and this time of year it won't have done too much harm, but it must be discouraging when he's put so much into it.
