It was made official at some point back in May: Buffalo experienced the wettest spring on record. That’s over 140 years of weather records, my friends!
Even in relatively dry weather, we can have issues with standing water in our backyard due to some low spots with bad drainage. So how did it fair during the rainiest spring ever?!?!? Our backyard was an absolute swamp!!!!
On the last Thursday of May, I went to meet my training group for our weekly run in preparation for my 5K race in June. As soon as we started to run, it began raining. I don’t think it had been raining longer than 30 seconds before it started pouring buckets of rain. It was INSANE.
When the lightening started about 2 minutes into our run, the coaches called the training session and sent us all home. We literally only managed to run long enough to get completely soaking wet. By the time I got home, the lightening had stopped and the boys were primed to play in the rain.
Here are some videos of them playing in our little swamp.
It probably comes as no surprise when I tell you we now have some spots in that yard where the grass isn’t growing. Whoops! 😉