I spent a restless night, listening to the remnants of Hurricane Nicole dump bucket of rain on my thirsty gardens.
And I was NOT comforted.
I was worried about my little rain garden, and whether it could handle the downpour.
I was out at first light to inspect the damage and found that the rain was rushing into the street and taking soil with it.
The "outspout," for want of a better word, had been blasted away and the water was trying to escape the garden any way it could. Much of the soil had been washed away from the roots of the plants in its path.
Jack Dawson, who installed the rain garden for me, is going to inspect the damage today and see what can be done.
We certainly don't get rain like this very often -- and certainly not often enough this summer -- but this is the kind of thing the rain garden is supposed to prevent -- the washing of soil into the Chesapeake Bay.