well, I live in a semi secure area.......our yard floods but usually there's not enough water that can get up close to the easement of the house due how the landlord built it. But we don't get much flooding in our area due to the rain/snow being minimal & irrigation waters being barely enough to flood our yard maybe once a month if we're lucky. some county owned ditches or drains don't get cleaned out on a regular basis so they get plugged w/dirt, twigs, leaves, trash etc. Some homes that have ditches are cared for by the home owners while others are suppose to be cared for by the city/county. You probably can't bill or sue the county for being too lazy to keep "their" ditches or drains clean......but you do have the right to complain to them about it. Where as the roads in front of Dan's place is higher ground then his shop.....there might not be anything that can be done.......but! doesn't mean he can't contact the county about the problem. Alli :) > Alli, > Maybe you live in a secured place, but there is a drainage ditch > running along our property line that use to overflow every we got a hard > rain and it backed up through the easement behind our house and onto our > back yard and back toward the street between our house and the one next > door. 40 years ago there wasn't any flood insurance written, and now it > is so costly that most people feel they can't afford it. "Some brain" has > determined we live in the 500 year flood plain. How they determined that > number for the years between floods is beyond me! Next year if my math > and memory holds up, will only be 400 years since this country was settled > by the Europeans 1607 - 2007 and no history has been written to cover such > weather facts! The thing is you can't bill or sue the city govt. nor the > county govt. for such happenings. they might offer to help lay sandbags > if there is enough time. Bettye