I awoke promptly at 4:00 this morning to go open the irrigation gate behind our house.  As I walked back, I noticed our neighbors backyard, which is a farm of some sort, had already been flooded.  I also heard the sound of rushing water coming from my backyard.

I got halfway back and suddenly realized that I was standing in ankle deep water in my backyard.  Fortunately I was wearing sandals so no big deal ('cept it was quite cold).  Anyway, someone had already knocked down our fence and opened our irrigation gate to flood our lawn.  I'm still not sure what the point of this is, as we don't grow anything but grass - and we have a sprinkler system.

Anyway, since our lawn looked pretty well flooded I closed our gate and opened the public gate to let the water pass on by.  Boy, was it exciting.  I then went back to bed.