Our house is also below street level, about 5 feet with a 50 foot setback from the street. We also have swales near the edge of both sides of our yard. Fortunately our backyard slope isn’t too bad. We have two pretty good rivers though when it rains heavily. We don’t have water problems with the house, even on the driveway. The builder had about 50 years experience and they knew what they were doing.
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Depends. My house is lower than the street. But my back yard is lower than front yard with a walkout basement. Been in house over 25 years and never had any water issues.
Well, should be ok during flood
Ha!
Moved a heavy decommissioned three-phase motor tornado siren which the city kindly loaded into our Expedition using a fork lift.
Used 2x8s to create a ramp to get it out.
Tied ropes to the end of several to drag it up the sloped driveway into the garage.