The weather is gawd awful today. Took Redd for a walk this afternoon and I got soaked as it was 'bucketing' down. There were rivers running down the roads. I passed one particular house at the bottom of a steep road that has new owners, they moved in earlier this year. The house always had a beautiful display of daffodils in the spring in the small front yard that had a raised small lawn on either side of the pathway. Very pretty really. Well the new owners dug up the lawns or rather dug them out and the daffdils as well. The new owners then laid plastic down and covered it with pebbles. Not so pretty any more. They are now the proud owners of a swiming pool. The garden was flooded and the water was lapping the front porch. A young man was trying to clear the drain in the road but it wasn't block just overwelmed by the volume of water. I have never seen that garden flooded before and I suspect they did not consider drainage when they remodeled their front garden.