Well that was crazy! 😳 Definitely still got some work to do grading the yard, which you’ll see in the next video! Make sure you’re subscribed to the channel and hit the thumbs up button to show some love! ❤️
From Australia 🇦🇺 why not install some rainwater tanks? You can capture rain water as well as the snow melt, too. That way, you can self-contained self-assured environmentally sustainable responsibility framing from Australia 🇦🇺 love program too 🇨🇦❤
@@TheYardGeekI would had gvn Father the lil mower advertised as he has the well groomed yard. Geekster ,U need a Rider lawn mower and a snowblower get n2 where Bobby and 😮Johnny can't. (Suggested by Canadian,Dr.Janine Bowring) Pool salt 2 kill out the weeds and might help the snow melt faster. I probably pump all that water n2 the sewers.😂
@@TheYardGeek I bet! Just watching it had to a good time. I used to be mesmerised by my dad’s automatic vacuum, it even cleans itself! I was 49 and walking behind it for three days while visiting him! It’s amazing what is out there. Yes, I live under a rock at times 🤣🤣
Pretty shoddy developer who sold you this acreage. Here in Australia, if a developer sold acreage he/she would have to put major drainage in place befroe he/she would get permits to sell.
Make a dry dich where the most water collected with dry moats connecting. So that in the future the melt can drain the yard without making the yard a muddy swamp. Maybe even make the complete yard surrounded by a mini berm to protect the smaller plants from erosion. Anyway, great video, can't wait for the next one.
I’ve been thinking about what all my options are…whether it’s a retention pond, a more sophisticated spot to pump the water out, or just letting nature do its thing as it doesn’t last long anyways!
On a positive note now you know what to prepare for, for the future 🪴🌿🌲 Can’t wait to see your yard bloom into a beautiful masterpiece that I know it’s going to be❤
Wow! That scares me to see almost the flood in your yard. It is not ok. I hope all the trees and shrubs are planted to make it stronger to grow when the snow finishes melting. 🙏 Your parents’ dog is excited to see you and is charming. Thank you for the great tip for the Nav Robotic lawnmower. Have a beautiful day and a weekend. 🙌👏👍😊🤟
Coming over from the Detail Geek channel. Glad you mentioned you have this new channel and congrats. I live in Hell's Kitchen in NYC-USA hence I don't have a car or acreage...Hence I'm living vicariously through your channels.🌳🌳❤❤
why don't you collect the water in a big underground cistern and use it when the Sommer is hot to water your trees and plants? That safes a lot of money. thx for sharing the video
Loved this ❤❤ Typical.......it doesn't make a difference, which country your from..... we'll just subdivide this parcel of land.... and not plan drainage properly 😒 then home-owners are left trying to rectify the problem 🙄 Sooooo looking forward to the next Yard Geek🤓 ❤ from melbourne....Australia 🇦🇺
and the more that is built and developed on the surrounding land, the worse the problem will become as there will be less open land to absorb the water. I would be attending planning and development meetings or whatever the equivalent is in Canada to keep an eye on what is going on. We stopped the state and federal govt’s from intervening in our watershed that has been beautifully managed by the farmers, the counties, and the townships for nearly 100 years.
We had a winter like that in New Brunswick when we lived there, we had three +40 cm blizzards in one week and it went on from there. Then boom, summer overnight and the melt started. We lived in military housing so a lot of the water ran through the basement. At least you are able to fix your water flow problem yourself. The acreage is looking great, fingers crossed for your trees coming back ok.
I was in Lethbridge last week at my Step Son's acreage. I went from 45*C (113* F) here in Las Vegas to 10*C (50*F) in Lethbridge. I froze LOL. I also got eaten by mosquitos 🥴
The drone really comes in handy for this channel. I laughed when you said spring melt and then of course more snow. This is a good test to see how much water the eco buffer can take. It really got a lot there. So that was a good test. The neighbors yard is well done, but he could use some elevation. I am SO glad you didn't suffer any damage to your house from all this water. Ok, so back to Dad's house for a minute, am I the only one that noticed the off kilter bird house in the back ground? You would need a small army of those mowers to do your whole acreage. 🤣That cracks me up. Anyway, at least this was a good test run of your work on leveling the yard. Now you know where some grading might help. You look so cool leaning on Jonny at the end, he is definitely one of my favorite purchases of yours. Thanks for doing this Mitch, can't wait to see the next one. Have a great weekend, you deserve some rest. 💜
Yes the drone footage is great! Gives really good perspective for things like this. This was definitely a worst case scenario, and one I would hope doesn’t happen again. But, so long as the water isn’t coming in the house it won’t be a problem since it all drains out and the evaporates away in a week or two. Trees should be ok too I hope! As for my neighbour, his house was built below grade so he has to really be careful during any spring melt, but he’s taking action on improving the drainage in his yard too. Haha, yeah my mom loves the birds. Wouldn’t that be cool to have like 10 of the navimows working in sequence on my grass?! Hahaha Anyways, glad you enjoyed this one Joel! See you in the next one!
Look into natural rainwater harvesting and bioswales - good way to make a ground sponge to keep the spring melt watering your plants for a while longer!
Glad to hear your house or your neighbor's house didn't flood. With the hundred degree temps Arizona been getting, snow will melt very quickly. Love this video and can't wait to see the next one.
If this was posted a month ago (as YT says in the description), why are you now coming into spring? It's currently the end of winter in Australia- and we are coming into spring. For you, this should be the other way around, huh? It's going to be a warm summer here again. At the end of winter, we've already had temperatures up to 28C (80F). Yikes!
💣🔥💥💦👟✔🤓 livin n a potential flood zone myself I 4got 2 mention another idea the city dug like 4 wells so far deep... so the water runoff n2 those wells.🔥
Oh, I feel your pain. Brilliant idea with the sump pump, as long as you’ve an area downhill to flow it to. Preferably not your neighbours if you like them. Our sump pump in the States starts running mid April and stops around mid June. We had to dig retention ponds on two of our properties and raise the driveways. We needed a canoe to get to the post box and collect packages from the end of the driveway! 🚣♀️ 😂
I just found your detailing channel and now this one. As someone who loves gardening and trees, i cant wait to see your property come along. So awesome. Also, have you thought about some water loving trees to help keep wet areas dryer? Like river birches? Great job.
From seeing how high the road has been built up (thanks probably to the engineers who could foresee this event), that's a pretty good sign that everyone should have built their homes a bit higher off the ground. You may have to consider putting in a large pond (more like a mini-lake) up the back of your yard and sloping downwards towards this for future events. It's something that hasn't been communicated well to the property buyers. I guess they thought it was obvious from the way that road is built.
Could you prep the trees for the harsher climates? I've seen people wrap them and do other things so this stuff doesn't happen. Pretty sure it doesn't cost much either. Anyways, just an idea. Hope it helps.b
Mate not gonna lie I'm loving these videos! It's great to see the progress! When you going to come and do a UK tour then would be awesome to grab a beer with you!
Nice video, especially enjoyed the drone footage. Yeah the drainage situation does not look good, I'd bee really concerned if you all got a serious amount of rain in a short amount of time.
I'm no expert but what if you redirected the melted snow to a retaining pond in the corner of your front yard? Which could be a water source for when there is drought. If it's a wet season the overflow could go into the ditch.
You want your audience to watch in video promotions and ads. Get outta here with that nonsense. I’m happy to support this type of content but that’s too much.
It's really great watching you build all of this from scratch. Not sure it feels great doing all the work lol, but seeing someone go from a patch of land to what you've got so far is amazing!!! What a life ♥️
i plow snow for fun so i probably plow about the same amount of snow in a year that you plow after one snowfall. i use a heavy shovel and am 14 years old
Yup, plus developers like to skimp out so of course all they did was put a road and some culverts in and called it a day…only they did a crap job of that too. There would still need to be quite a bit more water for it to have caused problems, and I’m going to make sure I landscape in such a way that my basement windows are protected. Should be ok!
Wow,what a awesome place you have, best wishes for you and your property, you do great work, if I was younger, I would have a crush. Best always to you.
You had said you expected some of this, but not this much! The farmland near my home has been sold to developers. I'm worried what will happen with roads and such. There was significant flooding years ago with several feet of water in houses across the highway from me. Good luck. ❤
Honestly I would think that a subdivision with roads would improve drainage as they would have adequate drainage around houses to the street, where they’d likely have storm sewers not? Of course situations can vary so maybe not!
@theyardgeek I hope you're able to add content here more consistently. This is a great channel and very educational, but such long waits for short videos 🥺. I imagine it can't be easy running the shop, creating content, building out your acreage, and anything else you have going on, but I hope you're able to add something soon. In the meantime take care ♥️
Might I say that must have been an incredibly high end/expensive hot tub to warrant a crane to remove it. I deal with water all the time I pump water all the time we use 2” centrifugal pumps with Honda engines. Run off is destructive that’s for sure. Culverts should always be as placed as low as possible, it’s the best practice. Interesting and personal view of your land. Perhaps you could use a culvert or perhaps a nyloplast structure with honeycomb steel cover in the low point from the studio side to the open side yourself. A lot of this water looks equalized. We have certain areas that are near sea level in Maine that this issue occurs. Ultimately while it may not have been deemed necessary at first, but catch basins and underground 15-18” underground drain pipes should have probably been installed in places.
He could, but it would need to drain into the same undersized system that is already not handling it. Not good planning at all by developers- exceptional year or not, as more houses are added on that flat plain- more concrete more run off less ground to absorb water. His drone footage looked a lot like what the farmers in MN this year were dealing with, their crop fields flooding as the drainage ditches were above capacity and the drain pumps were basically recycling the water until the levels started going down.
It seems no one thought of drainage before deveoping the sub. French drains work great, but in your case there is no where to drain it to. If one neighbor does something drastic, you all pay. I live in a suburb of Detroit, not far from Lake St Clair, so water flows eastward toward the lake, often in the back yards. I was getting major water from two sides of my yard, so we had a French drain installed 2 years ago, and after two winters and many severe downpours, I am happy to say we no longer get flooding. The pop-up emitter was brought out front and drains down my driveway, oftem peeing for a day after a big downpour. No puddles and I can cut my lawn with the tractor as soon as it al melts. Amazing.
You need marsh plants. That will help with snow melt, but also when you get big rains the rest of the year. My yard is on a much smaller scale, but I have water-loving plants in areas known to collect water. It helps keep the water away from the foundation and gets rid of it faster.
I wonder if there is a way to create perhaps a reservoir that collects the run off while also providing a place to use if the area starts getting hurt by a dry spell. A man made lake?
A suggestion: I would like to see a date range of the videos and projects you do. Its hard to understand and appreciate how long some of these things take.
Hello Mitch, I have been a subscriber since you announced its arrival. Great to see the land coming along. Sure, it's a lot of work now. Think of all the work future you will not have to do. Love the quality of your videos, keep doing what you do!
PS, looking forward to next weeks Detail Geek video. Love the "Mystery Machine" name. That was the first thing I thought of too. Great minds think alike.
Your Father has a smaller more manageable yard, love that Robot Mower! You shoulda built your house on a higher mound! Is their anything you can do for future spring melts? 🥰
Yes! The Navimow is really cool and great for a yard like his! Definitely should have set the house higher and brought in more fill dirt, but holy heck would that have cost me a small fortune 😄
Lucky you’ve got the right tools for the job with Johnny & the kitty Cat. Personally I’d build a nice big berm and plant it out to give you privacy & hold out the water when it melts. Lucky you’ve got the footage of the whole flow to see how you can mitigate on your property. Those developers need a good uppercut & you can see where the road towards the end has been affected in the past with the cracks patched with tar, definitely not enough culvert pipes under the driveways to help the water move more efficiently.
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Well that was crazy! 😳 Definitely still got some work to do grading the yard, which you’ll see in the next video!
Make sure you’re subscribed to the channel and hit the thumbs up button to show some love! ❤️
I am so happy that all your planning saved your house during the spring thaw. All that planning and work is serving you well. Excellent video! 💜
The YardGeek looks so definitely to continue a strong growth planted and trees during summer. I am glad to see everything good start them. 😊🙌👏❤
From Australia 🇦🇺 why not install some rainwater tanks? You can capture rain water as well as the snow melt, too. That way, you can self-contained self-assured environmentally sustainable responsibility framing from Australia 🇦🇺 love program too 🇨🇦❤
I think you can count on it happening again Mitch!
It's not a fault of mother nature it's only reason to correct mistakes next spring. Now you have got a valuable experience and this is a big plus.
I love that dad made an appearance! Turns out you’re not alone all the time
Haha he was happy to have his lawn cut 😄
He's always got Mike around😅😅
@@TheYardGeekI would had gvn Father the lil mower advertised as he has the well groomed yard.
Geekster ,U need a Rider lawn mower and a snowblower get n2 where Bobby and 😮Johnny can't.
(Suggested by Canadian,Dr.Janine Bowring)
Pool salt 2 kill out the weeds and might help the snow melt faster.
I probably pump all that water n2 the sewers.😂
@@TheYardGeek I bet! Just watching it had to a good time. I used to be mesmerised by my dad’s automatic vacuum, it even cleans itself! I was 49 and walking behind it for three days while visiting him! It’s amazing what is out there. Yes, I live under a rock at times 🤣🤣
Yard Geek and Post10: the crossover collaboration no one saw coming! (One can dream, right?)
Didn’t see this until after I posted damn near the same thing!
Dude, we have to make this happen. Two of my favorite channels.
Pretty shoddy developer who sold you this acreage. Here in Australia, if a developer sold acreage he/she would have to put major drainage in place befroe he/she would get permits to sell.
Make a dry dich where the most water collected with dry moats connecting. So that in the future the melt can drain the yard without making the yard a muddy swamp. Maybe even make the complete yard surrounded by a mini berm to protect the smaller plants from erosion. Anyway, great video, can't wait for the next one.
It'd be nice to pump some of that water into storage tanks to use for watering the yards and gardens.
Build a retention pond in your yard and later, stock it with fish.
I know it’s not necessary, but a pond would be an awesome feature of your acreage. Also great for content!
You need a French drain at that low point. Should solve most of the non-point water.
Thanks for sharing this, I look forward to seeing what you are going to do about your drainage this summer…so cool, we learn so much from you.
Did anyone else just find out his name was Mitch this whole time? lol
Keep up the great work Mitch :)
Hey Mitch,
The yard and the house are coming along. Love the updates. Keep them coming!!!❤😍💯
Thank you! Will do!
Just wondering! Did you put deep the big drain pipes somewhere in the soil from the yard when the snow melted away? Successful job?🤔😊👍👏🙌
I’ve been thinking about what all my options are…whether it’s a retention pond, a more sophisticated spot to pump the water out, or just letting nature do its thing as it doesn’t last long anyways!
On a positive note now you know what to prepare for, for the future 🪴🌿🌲
Can’t wait to see your yard bloom into a beautiful masterpiece that I know it’s going to be❤
Oh definitely! I’ve got such an epic plan for this yard and I can’t wait to show it to you guys!!
@@TheYardGeek super excited and it’s not even mine! Lol
Wow! That scares me to see almost the flood in your yard. It is not ok. I hope all the trees and shrubs are planted to make it stronger to grow when the snow finishes melting. 🙏 Your parents’ dog is excited to see you and is charming. Thank you for the great tip for the Nav Robotic lawnmower. Have a beautiful day and a weekend. 🙌👏👍😊🤟
Thanks Cynthia! I’m confident everything will be ok and that I can alleviate the water a bit going forward! Have a great weekend!
Not gonna lie, this is making me glad I live in the tropics lol. I've always wanted to experience snow but not like this 🥲
Coming over from the Detail Geek channel. Glad you mentioned you have this new channel and congrats. I live in Hell's Kitchen in NYC-USA hence I don't have a car or acreage...Hence I'm living vicariously through your channels.🌳🌳❤❤
Absolutely insane water issues there. Hopefully people can band together and figure out a drainage solution for the neighborhood.
why don't you collect the water in a big underground cistern and use it when the Sommer is hot to water your trees and plants? That safes a lot of money. thx for sharing the video
Loved this ❤❤ Typical.......it doesn't make a difference, which country your from.....
we'll just subdivide this parcel of land.... and not plan drainage properly 😒 then home-owners are left trying to rectify the problem 🙄
Sooooo looking forward to the next Yard Geek🤓 ❤ from melbourne....Australia 🇦🇺
Lol ain’t that the truth!
and the more that is built and developed on the surrounding land, the worse the problem will become as there will be less open land to absorb the water. I would be attending planning and development meetings or whatever the equivalent is in Canada to keep an eye on what is going on. We stopped the state and federal govt’s from intervening in our watershed that has been beautifully managed by the farmers, the counties, and the townships for nearly 100 years.
We had a winter like that in New Brunswick when we lived there, we had three +40 cm blizzards in one week and it went on from there. Then boom, summer overnight and the melt started. We lived in military housing so a lot of the water ran through the basement. At least you are able to fix your water flow problem yourself. The acreage is looking great, fingers crossed for your trees coming back ok.
Crazy! Yes, I should be ok water wise as this has showed me what to prepare for in the future! I’m hopeful all the trees will be ok 🤞🏼
Every time I've seen subdivisions pop up in what was once farm ground, there are significant drainage issues.
Yup. Developers don’t care about drainage
You need to get @post10 to figure out your drainage issues!
I would like to know how much this cost from buying the lot to where you are at now. Amazing job so far!
Thank you!
I was in Lethbridge last week at my Step Son's acreage. I went from 45*C (113* F) here in Las Vegas to 10*C (50*F) in Lethbridge. I froze LOL. I also got eaten by mosquitos 🥴
The drone really comes in handy for this channel. I laughed when you said spring melt and then of course more snow. This is a good test to see how much water the eco buffer can take. It really got a lot there. So that was a good test. The neighbors yard is well done, but he could use some elevation. I am SO glad you didn't suffer any damage to your house from all this water. Ok, so back to Dad's house for a minute, am I the only one that noticed the off kilter bird house in the back ground? You would need a small army of those mowers to do your whole acreage. 🤣That cracks me up. Anyway, at least this was a good test run of your work on leveling the yard. Now you know where some grading might help. You look so cool leaning on Jonny at the end, he is definitely one of my favorite purchases of yours. Thanks for doing this Mitch, can't wait to see the next one. Have a great weekend, you deserve some rest. 💜
Yes the drone footage is great! Gives really good perspective for things like this. This was definitely a worst case scenario, and one I would hope doesn’t happen again. But, so long as the water isn’t coming in the house it won’t be a problem since it all drains out and the evaporates away in a week or two. Trees should be ok too I hope! As for my neighbour, his house was built below grade so he has to really be careful during any spring melt, but he’s taking action on improving the drainage in his yard too.
Haha, yeah my mom loves the birds. Wouldn’t that be cool to have like 10 of the navimows working in sequence on my grass?! Hahaha
Anyways, glad you enjoyed this one Joel! See you in the next one!
Look into natural rainwater harvesting and bioswales - good way to make a ground sponge to keep the spring melt watering your plants for a while longer!
I'm looking forward to seeing the evolution of your plans.
Mitch: Good luck with your yard and water protection, of your house, this Summer.
Pff. This is why I can't live ANYWHERE up north. I'm not dealing with all that
Glad to hear your house or your neighbor's house didn't flood. With the hundred degree temps Arizona been getting, snow will melt very quickly. Love this video and can't wait to see the next one.
Drainage 1/10. Battle to send water to other neighbors lots. LOL
Aussie 🇦🇺 here... you're literally living my dream... feeling kinda stalkerish being subscribed to multiple *geek* channels but love your content 🤘
Maybe i am naïve but would preferer the cold of Canada then the 100+F heat of central Texas USA
If this was posted a month ago (as YT says in the description), why are you now coming into spring? It's currently the end of winter in Australia- and we are coming into spring. For you, this should be the other way around, huh? It's going to be a warm summer here again. At the end of winter, we've already had temperatures up to 28C (80F). Yikes!
💣🔥💥💦👟✔🤓 livin n a potential flood zone myself I 4got 2 mention another idea the city dug like 4 wells so far deep... so the water runoff n2 those wells.🔥
Oh, I feel your pain. Brilliant idea with the sump pump, as long as you’ve an area downhill to flow it to. Preferably not your neighbours if you like them. Our sump pump in the States starts running mid April and stops around mid June. We had to dig retention ponds on two of our properties and raise the driveways. We needed a canoe to get to the post box and collect packages from the end of the driveway! 🚣♀️ 😂
I just found your detailing channel and now this one. As someone who loves gardening and trees, i cant wait to see your property come along. So awesome. Also, have you thought about some water loving trees to help keep wet areas dryer? Like river birches? Great job.
As an Aussie I've never had to deal with freezing temperatures and snow, am I missing out on something or am I lucky?
From seeing how high the road has been built up (thanks probably to the engineers who could foresee this event), that's a pretty good sign that everyone should have built their homes a bit higher off the ground. You may have to consider putting in a large pond (more like a mini-lake) up the back of your yard and sloping downwards towards this for future events. It's something that hasn't been communicated well to the property buyers. I guess they thought it was obvious from the way that road is built.
Could you prep the trees for the harsher climates? I've seen people wrap them and do other things so this stuff doesn't happen. Pretty sure it doesn't cost much either. Anyways, just an idea. Hope it helps.b
Mate not gonna lie I'm loving these videos! It's great to see the progress!
When you going to come and do a UK tour then would be awesome to grab a beer with you!
Wow this is wild! Hopefully as your many trees grow bigger you’ll see less water overall in the future!
Nice video, especially enjoyed the drone footage. Yeah the drainage situation does not look good, I'd bee really concerned if you all got a serious amount of rain in a short amount of time.
I'm no expert but what if you redirected the melted snow to a retaining pond in the corner of your front yard? Which could be a water source for when there is drought. If it's a wet season the overflow could go into the ditch.
Love the drone shots. Looking forward to your next one as you're teaching me a thing or two about homesteading.
I looked at your links. What drone do you use or recommend comparable on Amazon?
Loved seeing your Dad
You want your audience to watch in video promotions and ads. Get outta here with that nonsense. I’m happy to support this type of content but that’s too much.
I think I would listen to you read manuals for all those contraptions you have there lol
It's really great watching you build all of this from scratch. Not sure it feels great doing all the work lol, but seeing someone go from a patch of land to what you've got so far is amazing!!! What a life ♥️
Thank you very much!
i plow snow for fun so i probably plow about the same amount of snow in a year that you plow after one snowfall. i use a heavy shovel and am 14 years old
Have you ever thought about building a pond? To help with the water
sadly this is what happens when farmland gets developed without much thought to drainage. Hopefully you won't have crazy melts like this often
Yup, plus developers like to skimp out so of course all they did was put a road and some culverts in and called it a day…only they did a crap job of that too. There would still need to be quite a bit more water for it to have caused problems, and I’m going to make sure I landscape in such a way that my basement windows are protected. Should be ok!
Wow,what a awesome place you have, best wishes for you and your property, you do great work, if I was younger, I would have a crush. Best always to you.
Thank you!
You had said you expected some of this, but not this much! The farmland near my home has been sold to developers. I'm worried what will happen with roads and such. There was significant flooding years ago with several feet of water in houses across the highway from me. Good luck. ❤
Honestly I would think that a subdivision with roads would improve drainage as they would have adequate drainage around houses to the street, where they’d likely have storm sewers not? Of course situations can vary so maybe not!
So appreciate your hard work with your content! It's awesome! - I watch all the way from Australia. Keep up the good work! :)
Thank you!
First winter melt went pretty well.
Cute mower!!!
@theyardgeek I hope you're able to add content here more consistently. This is a great channel and very educational, but such long waits for short videos 🥺. I imagine it can't be easy running the shop, creating content, building out your acreage, and anything else you have going on, but I hope you're able to add something soon. In the meantime take care ♥️
Working on it!
you gotta pump out another video buddy!!
That fake music is horrible.
That sure was a lot of water!
This land kind of seems like a bad area to build because it’s prone to flooding and water sitting there
Too bad that water can’t be scooped up for future use with forest fires.🇨🇦❤️
You have amazing property!
Thank you!
Much more of the Wiener please!
Your parents dog is cute 🥰
Retention pond or you need to tile your property
Wow! That's some serious waterfront property you have. Looking forward to how you solve the problem.
Might I say that must have been an incredibly high end/expensive hot tub to warrant a crane to remove it. I deal with water all the time I pump water all the time we use 2” centrifugal pumps with Honda engines. Run off is destructive that’s for sure. Culverts should always be as placed as low as possible, it’s the best practice. Interesting and personal view of your land. Perhaps you could use a culvert or perhaps a nyloplast structure with honeycomb steel cover in the low point from the studio side to the open side yourself. A lot of this water looks equalized. We have certain areas that are near sea level in Maine that this issue occurs. Ultimately while it may not have been deemed necessary at first, but catch basins and underground 15-18” underground drain pipes should have probably been installed in places.
Could you run tile, like they do in the farmer's fields, to help drain the water?
He could, but it would need to drain into the same undersized system that is already not handling it. Not good planning at all by developers- exceptional year or not, as more houses are added on that flat plain- more concrete more run off less ground to absorb water. His drone footage looked a lot like what the farmers in MN this year were dealing with, their crop fields flooding as the drainage ditches were above capacity and the drain pumps were basically recycling the water until the levels started going down.
My grandfather would stick to a John Deere ride-on lawnmower, just how he likes it.
It seems no one thought of drainage before deveoping the sub. French drains work great, but in your case there is no where to drain it to. If one neighbor does something drastic, you all pay. I live in a suburb of Detroit, not far from Lake St Clair, so water flows eastward toward the lake, often in the back yards. I was getting major water from two sides of my yard, so we had a French drain installed 2 years ago, and after two winters and many severe downpours, I am happy to say we no longer get flooding. The pop-up emitter was brought out front and drains down my driveway, oftem peeing for a day after a big downpour. No puddles and I can cut my lawn with the tractor as soon as it al melts. Amazing.
We have rain gardens in PNW so I’m wondering if there can be a snow garden of sorts. Plants that wake up super thirsty or evergreens of some variety
You need marsh plants. That will help with snow melt, but also when you get big rains the rest of the year.
My yard is on a much smaller scale, but I have water-loving plants in areas known to collect water. It helps keep the water away from the foundation and gets rid of it faster.
I can relate. When my yard in Los Angeles freezes in winter I … oh, wait…
I wonder if “unlikely weather event” is the new normal. Also it might be the time to see if the developer had an adequate flood mitigation plan.
I wonder if there is a way to create perhaps a reservoir that collects the run off while also providing a place to use if the area starts getting hurt by a dry spell. A man made lake?
what is the essence of having huge lands by everyone in ur community but cant create a proper drainage system
A suggestion: I would like to see a date range of the videos and projects you do. Its hard to understand and appreciate how long some of these things take.
Pond or french drains to get rid of the water faster. Especially around the house.
Oh wow, I would be so worried with all that snow melt. I love that you grabbed the pump to try and help you clear it out a little bit quicker.
When is the next video dropping?!? It’s been too long! 😩
NEW video is live!
Ao easy mate, just set a pond there… some people wait years to fill theirs, you can make it in a few weeks for the sounds of it
This is awesome 👌
No way I’d want to live there with all that snow, glad I moved to Florida 😊
Please add a rain garden in one of the low spots, this will let a lot of water to soak into the ground instead on running off.
Please upload more on this channel
Trying to!
Please upload more this channel is so good need more content
Dig a trout pond
Wow Mitch you have your own island 🏝
They need some kind of retention pond to drain all that water into
Cool!
Hello Mitch, I have been a subscriber since you announced its arrival. Great to see the land coming along. Sure, it's a lot of work now. Think of all the work future you will not have to do. Love the quality of your videos, keep doing what you do!
PS, looking forward to next weeks Detail Geek video. Love the "Mystery Machine" name. That was the first thing I thought of too. Great minds think alike.
Thank you!! ♥️
5:37 this is the perfect place for a Pond
Your Father has a smaller more manageable yard, love that Robot Mower! You shoulda built your house on a higher mound! Is their anything you can do for future spring melts? 🥰
Yes! The Navimow is really cool and great for a yard like his!
Definitely should have set the house higher and brought in more fill dirt, but holy heck would that have cost me a small fortune 😄
Lucky you’ve got the right tools for the job with Johnny & the kitty Cat. Personally I’d build a nice big berm and plant it out to give you privacy & hold out the water when it melts. Lucky you’ve got the footage of the whole flow to see how you can mitigate on your property. Those developers need a good uppercut & you can see where the road towards the end has been affected in the past with the cracks patched with tar, definitely not enough culvert pipes under the driveways to help the water move more efficiently.
Yep exactly. I will absolutely be taking steps to mitigate the water risk. If only the culverts were larger, and placed at the correct depth…