Floods

We didn't get flooded after the recent downpours, so, in a fit of flood-envy, the husband and a friend and builder ripped the mains water pipe in our house creating an artificial flood just for us. To save our floor, which in its current stage is nothing but a layer of clay, this got diverted onto the road from hence it flowed downhill through the village to join the big lake that is under normal circumstances the river at the valley bottom. This, I assume is the reverse of rainwater harvesting.