On July 13th, LHC experienced a monsoon downpour that resulted in flash flooding and washed-out roads. The event is being called a 50-year flood; 2.6" of rain fell in 4 hours. There was one death: 3 men were in a vehicle that was washed away, 2 escaped, 1 did not. If you're interested, there are several (very amateur) youtube videos of the flooding, google: lake havasu city flood july 2012.
Closer to home - at home, in fact - there's some flood-related damage. Water pouring over the retaining wall behind the house created a sinkhole about 12' by 3' where the ground surface dropped 6". No big deal that, just shovel in gravel from the bank above, and dig a trench to coax the next big runoff to head on down the hill rather than over the retaining wall.
A bigger deal is the driveway. The flooding washed out lots of gravel along the outside edge, and undercut the concrete driveway itself up to 2' in some areas. Repairing that is a job I'm not gonna mess with, have 3 concrete contractors working up bids on it; first bid is $750.
BTW, July 13th was a Friday. Maybe it's an unlucky day and number after all. Paraskevidekatriaphobics is the scientific name for folks who fear Friday the 13th. It's a great word; practice pronouncing it so you can impress your friends and neighbors. Since I don't suffer from this phobia and will never be able to use it on a scrabble board, I'm going to forget it as soon as I post this. There's already too much useless trash in my cranial archives and my trash retriever isn't what it used to be.
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