If Dahlia turned on the water about 9:30 am then it ran at full until 4:45pm. At 6 gallons a minute that's over 2000 gallons of water that filled the backyard. When we were more than halfway done emptying the yard Jamie said we should have been taking pictures. I dug a hole in the low spot and then I started trenching out a river for the water to flow around the side of the house and out to the street.
This is the side of the house, the water was running downhill.
Me standing over the "river" of water. The lawn was totally submerged.
There was just a lot of water, between 3 and 4 inches of standing water when I shut it off and started calling for help.
Today it's still really wet, but most of the water drained away. And of course, I forgot to shut the sprinklers off yesterday and the lawn got watered this morning. Naturally.
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