The world seeks hand excavated french drain groundwater removal science
Many people around the world go to this blog website on hand excavated french drains and groundwater drainage problems every day. Friends log in from all over the world seeking methods to prevent groundwater entry into their homes. French drains have been with us for thousands of years. Hand excavated french drains were the first type of drainage system used, and have always been the most popular type of french drains. Civilizations have used them for thousands of years literally, and people around the world continue to seek knowledge about french drains to keep them safe and dry in the face of mother natures raging rains. Old science taught to new people.
Northern Oregon and Washington had a double storm blow in from the ocean about 3 weeks ago now that produced winds of over 100 mph and around 12-15 inches of rain in a 48 hour period. Many homes were damaged and rainwater caused mudslides and flooding of rivers and highways. Those homeowners that installed hand excavated french drains prior to the heavy rains just sat by in awe watching their french drains literally run like rivers around their homes. The amount of damage that french drains prevented would certainly have exceeded the entire amount of damage done by the storm groundwater by many times over.
One customer called me in the middle of the worst of the storm asking how I was doing on the Columbia River. He was wondering if I was flooded and floating off. I said that I had just checked my crawlspace and because of the french drains that were installed around the home I had absolutely no water in the crawlspace. I could walk on my knees down there without even getting them damp. My neighbor had severe water damage to his basement and his lawn looked like “Lake Rick” for lack of a better word.
The customer and friend that called said that his french drains in Portland were “running like firehoses”. A neighbor of his that elected to not do hand excavated french drains suffered major water damage to his basement, which was finnished. I emphasize the word was. You can only imagine the joy in my friends voice upon telling my that his basement was dry and his french drains were running like fire hoses. The conversation stayed on drainage for only a moment or two and went right on to when we planned to go fishing again. We discussed when the smelt would start running, not when the water would stop running.
Where ever you live, whether it is Canada, Europe, Asia, Germany, Serbia, South America, Russia, Spain, The Netherlands, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Australia, New Zealand, China, Korea, France, England, or many of the other places visitors come from, you are logged in to my site statistics thru the server as having spent from 15 minutes to over 2 hours on my site reading about the installation of french drains. I know that there are drainage problems everywhere in the world. Even in desert climates where it does not rain much, when it does rain, it floods. More and more people have added french drains to their vocabulary. Go to Arizona and California and look at the massive open aquaducts created for the removal of stormwater. These aquaducts literally fill entire lakes when it starts raining. People play in them most of the time, but if they are caught in them when the rains come they will be swept away and found dead in most cases.
French drains have dominated the groundwater removal scene for a very long time. The popularity of this website shows me that hand excavated french drains are not just popular in the United States where I live, but everywhere in the world. Log in often and learn about protecting your home and family with french drains, specifically hand excavated french drains.
You are not alone in your interest to learn about french drains. It doesn’t have to rain for 40 days and 40 nights to have a drainage problem. The best drainage science in the world won’t stop a world wide water event that would flood most of the land on the entire planet and have us all in Arks. Perhaps in the future of mankind such an event may unfold, who can know. Protect yourself from the type of rainwater disaster that we can deal with. Design, construct and plumb hand excavated french drains.
If it looks like absolutely no one is doing a thing about global warming and the climate of the world starts changing that dramatically, look for my website on home designs that show you how to engineer and build your home as an Ark. It just floats off the foundation and off you go instead of under you go. Something tells me that I will have lots of interest in building and living in Arks as a groundwater prevention method rather than just french drains if that ever occurs in my lifetime.
For those of you not interested in my ongoing plans for home Arks, just do the french drains and light a fire in the fireplace for now. If you find yourself in such a world wide flood it is my hope that one of us drainage Ark advocates will pick you up on the water. I will bring the fishing rods and bait. Good luck with your french drain installations in 2008. Thanks for your interest.