[Dixie]

How would y'all handle this?

Here's the quandary. It's the rainy season, and my new neighbors behind me are trying to eliminate the giant puddle that forms in front of their house whenever it rains.

Yesterday the husband installed guttering to solve the issue. Incidentally its a horrific looking job where the gutters obviously slope away from the down spouts, but that's moot. The real issue is gutters aren't going to work because rain falls everywhere, not just his roof.

I think he almost realized the flaw in his thinking after the puddle reappeared with last night's rain. See, he's out there this morning working on a new solution. He's building a little cinder block damn to keep the water from flowing down the side of his house...

I'd like to tell him that unless he can get the city to regrade and repave the street in front of his house, his only remedy is to wait a couple of hour for the puddle to disappear. I just don't think he wants to hear that.