We have a full house here in Philadelphia, with family who were from coastal New Jersey staying with us, and my brother and my girlfriend as well.
We’ve got a full refrigerator of beer and food, and I have a pork loin cooking on the grill out back. Christina, my girlfriend, spent the day canning tomatoes (this was planned for today anyway, well ahead of the storm). I just cleared my french drain, as well as my downspout, the latter performed with duct tape. I am convinced this repair will not only survive the storm, but indeed will last well into the winter.
I’m pretty sure the creeks under 43rd and 51st Street are going to flood, and the Clark Park bowl will once again become a mill pond (here’s a shot of the old Mill Creek running under 43rd, as it was buried as a sewer, and you can just make out the 51st Street creek here).
My basement will likely see some flooding as it always does -I hate to sound flip, because we have a big storm coming our way- but for now I am going to take another pull at my bowl, crack another beer, and check on the pork loin.
So what is a ‘french drain’?
Burn another one, just like the other one
Drink some punch and pound a shot
Lose your power and get hot
’cause Hurricane parties don’t happen every day.
ps:French drains are perfpipe buried in gravel on a gravity line to to an outlet.