Flooding rains require hand excavated french drains
If you are one of the unlucky homeowners living in an area of the world that is presently receiving flooding, you need hand excavated french drains working for you to protect your land and your home.
It would have been better if they were installed prior to the floods, but better late than never. Even if you are forced to get right in the middle of the heavy rain to install them. Tough it out. Get it done. Dress warm and stay dry.
Follow the procedures set out in articles contained in this web site on how to install hand excavated french drains. Always start at the vent, whether a drywell or a daylighted vent, and work up the grade, so rainwater can be constantly running out of the completed section of the system to the vent.
If you install hand excavated french drains as I have taught you, you will have straight sides and a flat bottom, that you cannot create with a machine.
This quality of hand excavated french drain will stand tall and not collapse, right through the rains until you are at the stage of installation where you can install the perforated pipe and rock.
Vent downspouts if they are dumping roofwater next to your home. Everything hinges on clean orderly work.
Lay down plywood to walk and wheel barrow on. We install hand excavated french drains year round in heavy rains here in Oregon USA. We have seen the type of floods you are facing, and have worked right through them. It works. Don’t worry. Just get to work. You can do this.
Naturally if the dam breaks above your property, excavation time is over. Run for the hills and don’t look back. You can’t fool mother nature.