Note that the rain gauge is only made to hold up to 5", so if we had gotten more before I emptied it this afternoon, who knows what the total could have been. Four and three-quarters-ish inches of rain is nothing to sneeze at, though, especially if you have a pond in your yard. Mr. Frog is pretty happy, but the water is not often that high up on the rocks.
In general, that leads to this set-up:
That's actually rubber dryer pipe (crazy, I know, since you'd think it would melt) that the people who bought the washer and dryer that were here when we moved in didn't want. Our pond has a double pump set-up, either because it was expanded, or to both pump and have a UV filter. The UV filter unit has the splitter that allows us to take water off the pond rather than diverting it to the waterfall:
This set-up is useful to avoid undirected flooding; if we didn't attach the piping, the water cascades over the patio you can see in the earlier picture, towards the fence, which means it's heading straight for our neighbors' garage, as well as inundating their lawn. Instead it follows the lowered sidewalk towards our backyard. This section fills up quite often in a heavy rain but drains fairly quickly into the yard. That hose you can see is for my sprinkler, which I'm really not going to need for a while.
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| The fish don't even notice. Mr. Frog freaks out any time I get close to the pond, though, and has gone off into hiding somewhere in the foliage. |
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| This shot got a bit washed out with the reflection from the water, but you can see the giant koi in the lower left. |
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