sollers

We lived in a flood plain area when I was a teenager. There'd actually been some sense involved when planning the freeway into town -- the road was well elevated, with pasturage on either side down in the low-lying plain. Much less forethought went into building the neighborhood we lived in -- our house was at the most low-lying point, and we had a problem with rainwater flowing down the driveway, under our front door, through the carpeting and on out the back door, at least until a drain was set up in the front walkway and flowerbeds to create a catchment basin and gutters to send the water to either side of the house. Eventually the land just beyond ours was bought up and turned into a golf course, and they excavated to turn the little stream into ponds for water traps, which largely corrected the tendency of our back property to flood in the rain. (We were right at the edge of the neighborhood -- in fact, our back property line was the city limit -- and several of the houses on our street were using the acres in back to keep a couple of horses. Also a donkey, a goat or two and IIRC at one point a cow. Their drainage may have been a bit better than ours even before the golf course improved it, but still -- pasturage.)