About 5 years ago, we installed two tubes that allow the water in our ravine to flow under the roadway that connects our house to the nearest dirt road. You can view the project at http://magnusandkonswan.blogspot.pt/2010/10/road-building.html . Both tubes got blocked with debris and thousands of liters of rainfall diverted down the road and into our gardens around 5 am following thunderstorms. According to Flores Weather Archive , we received between 25-37 mm steadily throughout the entire day of October 13, 2015. When the drains work, no problem, it was the 3 am blockage the wreaked havoc until daylight allowed me to clear it. Nothing like being woken up in the dark to the sound of a mudslide in your backyard. The morning after! Our safety fencing slowed the mudslide and kept our roof from being buried. Our stairway is gone completely! Big stones vanished. The water is back where it belongs now, sliding down the ravine walls. The worst damage is to
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