Major Flooding From Severe Weather OVERWHELMED Our Drainage
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ค. 2023
- The severe storm that pushed through the eastern US on July 9, 2023 rained down so much water over such a short time it completely overwhelmed all of our drainage systems around the property. Watch me take a tour around, quickly help resolve some problems, and do some pre-cleanup in this video.
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"This reminds me of the time you didn't listen to me on the backhoe!" Classic dad statement. Awesome.
Please refer to my mini-excavator video for the reference. 😆
I wouldn't go swimming in rain run-off. A lot of times it has things in it, you don't want to be swimming in, like, septic tank contents. From an old Oregonian that is used to seeing rain like that.
Absolutely! We are away from pretty much anything of concern, but I wouldn’t do this in the neighborhood that flooded nearby.
As a kid our neighborhood had a street that dipped enough, that when it came a hard rain , we , the kids All went swimming in it. Nobody ever got sick. 😊
@@gerikbensingGerik threw in a little sex appeal for us.
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A dip in the Rain great ❤
WOW! Do I miss that northern lush grass. It’s like silk on your feet. Living in south Texas the grass is like straw.
I lived in central Texas for awhile and it wasn’t too far off of that. Don’t miss that at all!
So much for “turn around, don’t drown”!
I thought it was, "turn around, dive in"!
@@gerikbensing Turn around? Heck no just drive right thru. Back in the early 80s I had to go to a co-worker's home to get a set of keys. Went to work and grabbed the 5 ton Dodge flatbed and a log chain. Got to about within 2 miles of the co-workers house and found the road under water. With a car stuck in the middle of it. Drove the truck around it and hooked on the chain. While doing so a fish swam across my boots. Water was deep enough in one area that the exhaust on the truck was under water.
@@gravelydon7072 My ol' 1998 Durango has been exhaust deep a few times too. I'm sure that has nothing to do with all the rust I've had to repair over the years though. 😂 If the water is below the floor, I'm going for it.
I heard your dad say I'm dry inside except my feet, might be time to add some wellies (rubber rain boots, knee high) to your wardrobe ⛈⛈⛈
I’ve got a decent pair of knee highs I use for pressure washing, but I may need to get myself a pair of those waterproof pants to complete the waterproof wardrobe. I’m pretty sure I started this video in my underwear because I had just gotten home from lunch where my pants and shoes got soaked when I had to walk through a foot deep stream. 😂
@@gerikbensing good idea! My rain bibs arrived today (they’re great) I’ll be using them to pressure wash this weekend. We’ve been spared the storms here but I think our dry spell is going to end soon.
Omg reminds me of my dad, so bloody impatient cos only he does it right 😂😂🇬🇧
I'm finally at the age now to say, "No, dad, I'm right on this one" which you'll see in some of our team projects on my channel. In this case, however, I most certainly was oblivious on how to handle the basement flooding situation. 😂
Impatient Andy.
Meanwhile on Texas we haven't had rain in over 2 months ! 😢
Basically no rain here in June, so I'm glad it finally came around. Would have preferred it a little more spread out though!
The rain is so beautiful I don’t know how people can not like it and find the beauty off it.
Rain is sort of pretty, but here at 65th north it's cold and unpleasant and a hypothermia risk during outdoor activities. Didn't mind it at the Equator where it was hot and humid and sweaty anyway, was quite pleasant actually.
When it rains nearly every day for 3 months straight and you never see the sun and can never get outside to enjoy the Spring/Summer, it is not so beautiful.
Might be pretty... but not when its causing damage and money to property :/ New Home Owner here lol
It’s beautiful until you have to defend your property from it. Then it reeks havoc.
Rain is beautiful, especially under a tin roof but this magnitude is CRAZY!
your property is gonna look so much better now
Now that it's had a proper bath.
Holy cow that’s a deluge!
Man you are one lucky son! Your father is incredible!
We are two peas in a pod. You’ll see he and I working together in a lot of my videos. 😀
Oh yeah, their interaction is great.
Your grass is liking it. Looking luscious!
absolute gorgeous piece of land... very blessed!!
I would have jumped in the pond too. Love that you live near your parents. Still got the boy in you. Hope nothing bad happens. Cilantro is cheap if they don't grow back.. I just subscribed. God be with you 😊❤
Thanks for the subscription! About half of my cilantro appears to have survived the rain. Other than a little debris in the grass the next day we didn’t have any issues surprisingly.
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As long as it wasnt hurting anything id be having a ball with all that water
For sure! After the random flooded pipe was blocked in our basement it was all fun from there for us
Thank you. Enjoyed watching you inspect the flow of water to keep your home safe and dry.❤
I'm glad you enjoyed it, it was quite interesting to document!
My basement has never flooded because I live in the South and we don’t have basements. Crisis averted.
That’s some impressive rain.
That’s one way to avoid the problem!
You have a beautiful place! A lot of thought put into it. Good job!
Thank you very much, it's developed quite a lot over the years!
''alll thought out'''? nope...cause lotta water coming into basement.....elec.. an water....dont mix.....should be bone dry in that area no bueno
I feel for you all!! Northwest Connecticut, got alot of the same!!
Yeah, the storm moved right on up the east coast it seems.
As a Norwegian from the westcoast rain like this happens all the time. The difference between you and us, is that our infrastructure is designed around the weather.
Extremely difficult to hear you, wow what a rain show. Definitely time for some more drainage pipes and some rock around the pipes and filter fabric.
Yeah, I made sure to have the subtitles for this one. My GoPro is waterproof, but I don’t have a waterproof external mic. When our new building goes in we’ll need to think about how to redirect that water up at the top. That was the main contributor to the extra flow we think
Will I hope and pray that you guys are all ok
All is well here. After a bit of excitement from that pipe taking water the rest of the storm was pure entertainment for us.
That was wild I loved watching the pond water circle at the end. Nice work fam!
Thank you! Quite a wild afternoon!
Oh WOW!! Think is just maybe "raining".........
Just a little bit!
Yep definitely time to update everything, but at least now you know I wish we had that rain here in Tucson. It’s dry as a bone.😊
It hadn’t rained for pretty much the whole month of June, so I guess it’s playing catch-up right now
@@gerikbensing we did just recently have some nice rain here. Nothing like that but pretty good.
fun to watch
I liked the ending
Fun times! Enjoyed. Your dad is a good sport too!
He benefits greatly from me being around again!
That is a massive volume of water, and it will start eroding your driveway and hillside. Before you build anything you should seriously consider getting an engineer to help solve your huge water problem. You’re going to need some large swales and at least 18inch culverts to divert all this water from causing damage. That detention pond also needs a serious upgrade.
I grew up in a house that flooded the basement every winter .. 27 inchs one year .. I feel for you hope everything goes well in the clean up
Fortunately it wasn't too difficult to clean up. Took maybe 30 minutes to rake up all that debris on the edge of the collection basin the next day and a few branches here and there. I was expecting at least one or two trees down on our access roads, but we lucked out on this one.
That caddy is a beast in all that water lmao
We bought it last year and said to each other how invaluable it was for this day!
Hey there stranger.
I was surprised as hell to see a familiar face in my recommendations.
This was an interesting watch. That rain storm we had sure was crazy.
I'm glad this blew up. I hope you got a buttload of new subs.
Woah! That’s pretty cool! I’m glad it blew up too. Now to figure out the secret sauce to do this every week. 😆
@@gerikbensing I wish I could help you there. That pesky algorithm has a mind of its own.
yeah i live just outside philly and we got a lot of water to.
About thirty years ago when I first moved into naples maine. We had a severe rainstorm. Dump so much water on us. I had a ravine behind my house. It normally had a brook about four feet at its widest. But the ravine was at least fifty to sixty feet wide. Forty feet tall. And the water was almost coming over the edge of the ravine. There were trees that completely got covered in water where you can see the very tips of the trees. I had never seen that Ravine fill up with water Is that high ever since. There was no way out of our neighborhood. I've seen it flood to the edges of the ravine banks before. But not to the tops of it. It was so high that we put sand bags along the edge. One of our neighbors that's house was a little lower than ours. Got washed away.
great video i loved the way you said i got a little wet today you both are amazing xo🙂💖💖
Gotta have a little fun with it - thanks!
I lost my apt to 18 inches of water 2 years ago from the same thing. Our storm water goes onto a creek and that creek overflowed so the water had nowhere to go but onto the streets and into homes.
Ouch! That’s pretty much what happened in the neighborhood a few miles away. I’m glad our house is fairly immune from anything major.
*This is just the beginning.. Welcome to the Age of Aqua Rheas (Nice Peacocks)*
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We got this storm in Finger Lakes of NY. 5.5 inches in about 2 hours and 4 of those inches came in 45 minutes. It was unbelievable and very destructive.
Yeah, pretty close to what happened here. 3.5” in one hour and close to 7” overall. Wild!
Wow! What did the lakes look like after?
Prayers to you.
As a fellow Pennsylvanian, I know how our severe weather in Pennsylvania goes, but I’ve never seen anything like this.
Yeah, it’s the first time our catch basin overflowed. I thought it happened all over the state but I guess this storm was pretty localized in where it dumped the water.
My area in PA has been flooding thanks to the clear cutting for empty warehouses. 😢
It is so crazy, parts of Pennsylvania flooded like crazy, and people were killed! But in my part of Pennsylvania, Lansdale, we just had heavy showers all day, no flooding. I even took my daughter out to West Chester on this day and moved furniture into her new apartment! Crazy!
@nancys2275 I used to love in Lansdale, now live in the Poconos
You should get 3-4 inch plumbing pipe plug that you can use when ever you want
Yup! It’s just an empty pipe meant to be used for future electrical or whatever to a utility pit outside. Didn’t think much of being left open until this video. 😂
This is the first of your videos I've seen, and I'm fascinated by the sub-text at play here. Your Dad, of a different generation, appears to think this TH-cam malarkey his son has chosen as a career is "not-a-proper-job" and therefore takes it out on you by being a bit short-tempered and making you physically uncomfortable at the first opportunity. I'm sure there was no need for you to jump in that pool at all, it just amused him while he was doing some proper work and you were arsing around with your camera. Hilarious, but kinda wholesome at the same time.
In general my dad really supports what I’m trying to do. I had been living and working all around the world the last 10 years and moved back home at my family’s request last year. Taking some time off and giving them some time back helping maintain the property. In a perfect world I can make this YouTubing make enough money to continue to stick around. In this particular instance where things need to be done right then I think your interpretation isn’t too far off. By the end of the video he was just having fun with me. 😆 We work together a lot around here and have quite a the humorous rapport
@@gerikbensing Time is the most precious commodity we have, and time with your Dad, that's priceless. Good luck growing your channel, it's very watchable and the chemistry between you is quite entertaining.
13:35 & 17:34 - That’s what she said! 😂😂😂😅😅😅
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Great job! The only thing that can be done is to enlarge all of your drainage. Underground pipes could help. Be Safe!
Thanks! We got over 5 inches of rain so we aren’t going to worry about changing anything existing as this was a very rare rain, but certainly some pipe work will be in order for the new building going in.
happens a lot here in Florida.
I bet! I lived in Orlando for a few months and it would just randomly dump rain sometimes.
@@gerikbensing We had a week of it last week 250 miles South of Orlando. Currently we are at 106% of our normal rains for year to date. Average is between 50 and 60 inches and I have recorded as much as 84 inches in one year.
@@gravelydon7072 So crazy!
Flooding is the worst. I went through it, my basement had 2 feet of water once. What a shit show. We had to gut the entire basement and remove everything and we never re- finished it.
Fortunately our basement was never finished. Just a scary stone dungeon we do our laundry in. 😆
The retaining wall is sending the water into your front yard buddy!
Seems so, which is exactly what we want. Next stop: pond and beyond!
Would love to see proper draining here 😮
First time watching a Premiere, was a good time.
Glad you liked it, it was fun!
Mmmmmm.... muck bath!
Get you and your dad some Flex Seal paste
That’s a good idea! I actually just used some of that Flex Seal tape to save my buddy’s hole-y kayak the other day and it actually works great. I’ll suggest we try the paste for the conduit holes
My kayak is now 2% Flex Tape.
Flex tape is legit!
😊 I found toads in drain pipes before ;)
I actually cut a whole section of video where we inspect the rain water collection tank at the new building of our business. There were probably 10 little toads swimming around in there that had no way to get out. I scooped them out and gave them another chance.
The interesting thing is that 1" per hour (what I think I heard you say and consistent with the visibility in the video) is a fairly common occurrence where I am at. For us in North GA, a "100 year" storm is 3.5" per hour. At that intensity you can't see more than 100'.
The forecast called for about 1" of rain over an hour. We got something like 7" overall and 3.5" of them were in one hour. I think the 3.5" happened just before I started recording.
I live most of the time in the wet part of Florida. Officially, I have recorded a 2" rainfall in 15 minutes about 8 miles from the house. I say officially because it was done with a NWS rain gage and had to be reported to them. On a bad day with a TS or Hurricane, we have seen 25" of rain fall in 24 hours. I worked for a " water management " district. When you get rains like that, there is no managing it.
I also live in SE Ohio where we know what 100 year, 500 year, and 1000 year storms are like. My grandfather built two houses across the creek. First one was built on a level to be above a 100 year storm. It got flooded. Second house was built on a level above the 500 year level. It ended up with 2 feet of water in it. Water has never been in the cellar of the farmhouse built in 1812. There is a USGS stream gage about two miles up the creek. Normally it flows about 40cfs. At times it flows at 3000 cfs. Goes from 1.5' on the gage to over 20 feet on the gage. Yesterday it was at 1.84 feet. Jan 4, 2023 it hit 15.71 feet. We missed out on the July 9 storm. 4 years ago we had a storm like this one in Ohio and had water come into our basement in the house near town. Because the water removal system around the house could not handle all the rain that had fallen over the one week period. But that is why there is a drain in the basement floor.
That’s wild how much it can rain in some of these storms. You can only reasonably design and plan for so much. The worst flooding that ever happened here didn’t cause as much run off like featured in my video, but a large volume over large area rain event (I think it was a hurricane) caused the river to come up to around where we’re driving at 12:12 or so. That’s all considered floodplain down there. My workshop just above there is theoretically at risk if some completely insane storm occurred to go a foot or two above the floodplain, but the house and other buildings fortunately shouldn’t ever be in any real danger. The house has been going strong for around 200 years now. The only problem we had was the hill behind our house slowly consumed it and my dad fought it back for years and finally went all in on the retention walls which seem to be doing a great job. Stabilizes the ground and redirects the water to either side
@@gerikbensing Here is what it looked like this afternoon. th-cam.com/video/ZHqs3J7nUxY/w-d-xo.html
@@gravelydon7072 Certainly reminds me of some of the rain I experienced living in central FL for a few months!
I think a lot of people have been getting these crazy rains recently
Mother Nature is playing catch-up from the dry June I guess. 🤷
Atmospheric rivers are increasingly everywhere because of global warming.
down pipes onto the lawn right beside the basement .... not pipes tp the pond ... and not rain water tank to catch any FRESH water ......
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take a pool screen to it = 14:10 = then use that for ur gardens
It’s definitely the right kind of material. After we collected it all we threw it onto our pile of yard clippings that’s working it’s way into compost so it may indeed end up in the garden eventually.
That water must be filthy
Should be 99% runoff from forest and farm fields that were planted many months ago now. It was almost refreshing! 😆
The Bensing immune system remains strong.
Send some of the rain to Texas, we are being baked😮💨!
I used to live in Texas and I feel your pain! We didn’t get hardly a drop of rain here in the month of June and I think Mother Nature decided to play catch up.
Weather is weird right now.... here in the UK we have had solid rain for over 3 weeks now, yet the rest of Europe is literally *on fire* .......
@@Debbiebabe69 Apparently just an hour or two's drive west of here they haven't had almost any rain all summer. I know Canada has major forest fires that keep blowing smoke down here too.
San Antonio got some today.
lately it feels like weather forecasts are very wrong. last 3 days they called for no rain we got nearly a inch every day
I agree! I noticed the forecasts have been been pretty inaccurate since 2020.
I don't know who you are... first time viewer from random recommendation... but I can appreciate the absolute dad energy lol
Things going wrong. Grab some towels, a piece of cardboard, and some ducktape... we'll figure something out.
"You're killing your son." "Eh, so what?"
"This reminds me of the time you didn't listen to me about ."
Glad you decided to check out my video! That’s my dad for yah. He ends up being in a lot of my videos and that last line was in reference to when I was teasing him in a previous video about giving me advice while using an excavator for the first time. He’s a good sport with my TH-cam efforts. 😆
ha!!!!!good chance for a free shower;just keep a soap bar in your pocket,😂🛀🌧🌨
What state are u in? Hope y’all had minimal damage!
I’m in eastern Pennsylvania. We’ve had a few really isolated rain storms that dumped a ton of rain in various areas around here recently. All was well at my place afterwards but the town nearby had pretty bad water damage.
That was some crazy rain! Hope everything is okay! What rain pants is your dad wearing? I need a good pair, the breathable ain't cutting it.
They are Helly-Hansen Workwear Waterproof Bib Pants (amzn.to/3XZ031S). My dad has a hobby that has him in wet prickly brush on the regular and these things have been amazing. He stayed completely dry in these during our tour. If you buy them through that link it'll help support my channel. Thanks for watching!
@@gerikbensing bought through your link, thanks!
How are the rain pants, David? I am considering a pair as well.
@@j.t.2293 Hi JT, They’re great so far. Wore them pressure washing with rubber rain boots, stayed completely dry. They’re really flexible and I’m sure they’ll keep me dry if it ever rains here again. I highly recommend them!
Just had a storm like you had Gerik, I bought the black raincoat to go with the olive bibs. Tucked them partially in my rain boots and stayed 100% dry as I diverted the water from my house. Thanks for the recommendation.
Жесть. Что насчёт змей в воде при таких дождях? Не боишься?) Посмотрел несколько твоих видео про расчистку труб в водоёмах и сточных люков и то, что ты делаешь - круто. Не думал, что мне будут нравиться такие темы, но очистка окружающей среды - всегда благое дело!
There aren't too many snakes around here, I really didn't think much about any dangers in the water. Just having some fun in the crazy weather
You need some ducks
We have a few that like to spend a lot of time on our pond in the summer
woh woh woha your killing your son! "Awe so what." ...bahahah ahaha 11:32
Had to make sure that little clip got into the video. A branch hooked into the cab and pinned my leg. 😂 Glad you caught it, classic dad.
I like the approach that was taken on this weather event. Common sense and solution orientated. In germany we panic and want to pay more taxes on air so the rain won't be so bad anymore because you know: The more Carbon taxes you pay, the better the climate gets XD
More taxes solves all the worlds problems! 😒
Basements obviously have disadvantages
Especially when they are nearly 200 years old!
Poor planning 🌨️🌨️🌨️🌨️
I hope your basement doesn’t flood
After we got the water redirecting to the sump trench, all was well down there
That's alot of rain...
Let the ground water recharge
We certainly needed it since it didn't rain at all in June
@@gerikbensing Yeah. Every drop of water is precious. We have so much rain this year in India, it broke records of last 65 yrs. That's why, all vegetables prices are crazy high. Due to severe heat waves in June and rain this month, crops got damaged.
@@poppin_U That makes sense. The farmlands directly next to me benefited from this rain, but I'm sure other farmland nearby wasn't so lucky.
Might be interesting to know where video is filmed. Could be anywhere, literally.
Should show somewhere on the video description that this was filmed in Pennsylvania. But yeah, eastern PA is where I am. :-)
wow thats so so mad/ you should set up a salmon farm lol :)
We got some bass in our pond, does that count? 😂
@@gerikbensing yer that will do me fella lol :)
uhmmm why are the subtitles all at the beginning?
They seem to be working for me still. Anyone else have a problem?
Why so many hot water tanks ??
We have geothermal heating/cooling. The one tank is a regular hot water tank, the one next to it takes waste heat out of the geothermal system and "preheats" the water for our hot water tank, and that third tank under the stairs is just part of the geothermal system and isn't a hot water tank at all.
has this rain put the underground coal fires out?
Wouldn't that be something! I think up in that area there wasn't a huge amount of rain.
Greece could use this rain.
~rain dance commences~
I wonder if there’s any science behind all of this rain?
I’ve read a few theories in the comments. 🤨
i think dad wants you to put down the camera and help lol
Usually he’s fine slowing down our work process for the benefit of my videos, but I could tell and would agree he was not so much in the mood when we’re in emergency mode. But hey, 250k views made it worth it I’d say. 😆
Yeah it comes across in the video. I’m a meteorologist out here in Ca. I enjoyed this footage and the Peacocks sorry you got flooded but dad did a great job on the retaining walls
ahh yes, gotta love a drier fart
Fix them...
Outrosong name? :D
It's an unreleased single by my buddy called "Rough Final Soundscape." He has a TH-cam channel I have linked in the description. If you poke through his videos you'll find some of his other songs. He's a very talented musician!
This is due to geoengineering.
Yeah I wouldn't swim in that
haha, this seems to be a common trend among many of the comments! So far I’ve survived the dive. 🤪
Where in the world is this?
This is in eastern Pennsylvania
Unreal rain!
camera got wet,bro
Haha, I tried to cut most of the wipes on my shirt. Good thing GoPros are waterproof!
Million dollar idea: Gopro wiper arm.
Typical Dad who gets things done. The son said what can I do and Dad said shut up so I can figure things out lol 😆. You got to love the real men generation
My dad is most definitely a real man!
@@gerikbensing I could tell he was,being that my dad passed when I was two. I couldn’t help but be a little jealous
@@hankogle6858❤
Sorry about your dad Hank!
@@digitaldad4293 thanks, I didn’t have a bad life. I just admire people with that get it done dad
Mn is dry. Too dry
Dude that was pretty dumb. I hope you don’t get meningitis or something similar from swimming with your face in that water! 😬😐. Just bcuz u don’t get sick straight away, doesn’t mean u haven’t picked something up that is now hiding in ur body waiting for the right conditions to reactivate.
Fair enough - the only run off is from a farm field and forest so I wasn’t too concerned. But you certainly wouldn’t want to do this in a neighborhood or something
@@gerikbensing yep, it’s just that bacteria don’t only live in water but also in soil. In any case glad u didn’t get sick but maybe pause for thought if there’s a next time 👍
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Oh my you dove into that water, if its that much flood, sewage happens!
Shouldn’t be any sewage that could get there where we live. Though us Bensing men have developed a strong constitution against germs over the years. I’m feeling great a week and a half later!
@@gerikbensing so glad to hear that, I just see some horrible flooding on the news and thats what they get concerned about. You guys are awesome together!
Someone needs to call @gatecityfoundationdrainage and they would make quick work of this issue. :)
If only they were a few states closer! We’ve just been making educated guesses all these years. 😆
Water.