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I just had a thought.
I live on a ridge that is notorious for lack of rain, plus, my yard is nothing but sand. I've been in my new house for 8 months and yes, very little rain. It will darken, it will thunder. Fierce winds blow. Then it rains.........for about 30 seconds. I have a lot of trouble keeping things I planted watered.
I started looking at neighbor's houses and realize mine is the only one with gutters. Also they drain into what I was told were 'dry wells'.
I think the couple from NY who built this house 30 yrs ago expected normal rainfall and diverted it.
Yesterday I went out and yanked out the downspout from the drywells, to let what little rain I get, soak the shrubbery around the house. Was that a good idea?
Also sometime, in the future, whenever I have a new roof put on I will skip the gutters completely. I lived in Fla yrs ago and didn't have gutters and didn't miss them.
BUT, now what do I do with the pipe that is in the ground (or in the drywells)? It's at ground level and looks like more spouting was just buried. It's a bit scarey looking down into these holes in the ground on all 4 corners. I can't figure out how to get rid of them and don't have time to dig them out. I have a crowbar and thought of jabbing and pounding the spouting so that it's smashed and not a gaping hole. I feel like a snake is going to jump out at me every time I walk past.
I live on a ridge that is notorious for lack of rain, plus, my yard is nothing but sand. I've been in my new house for 8 months and yes, very little rain. It will darken, it will thunder. Fierce winds blow. Then it rains.........for about 30 seconds. I have a lot of trouble keeping things I planted watered.
I started looking at neighbor's houses and realize mine is the only one with gutters. Also they drain into what I was told were 'dry wells'.
I think the couple from NY who built this house 30 yrs ago expected normal rainfall and diverted it.
Yesterday I went out and yanked out the downspout from the drywells, to let what little rain I get, soak the shrubbery around the house. Was that a good idea?
Also sometime, in the future, whenever I have a new roof put on I will skip the gutters completely. I lived in Fla yrs ago and didn't have gutters and didn't miss them.
BUT, now what do I do with the pipe that is in the ground (or in the drywells)? It's at ground level and looks like more spouting was just buried. It's a bit scarey looking down into these holes in the ground on all 4 corners. I can't figure out how to get rid of them and don't have time to dig them out. I have a crowbar and thought of jabbing and pounding the spouting so that it's smashed and not a gaping hole. I feel like a snake is going to jump out at me every time I walk past.
