Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A homeowner living in the same house for about 50 years says she never had a problem with her yard flooding until recently. Madge ...

Some weeks, it arrives as a slow, soaking rain that fills the ditches and turns the yard into a sponge. Other weeks, it comes hard and fast, sheeting off roofs, carving little gullies in sandy soil, ...