Stop in for a cup of coffee
I'm good... I live at the top of a hill with a creek in my front yard... The creek is usually dry, but can get flowing good during heavy downpours...
The rainfall flows down a large hill into another creek in the forest preserve, which then eventually flows into the Cal-Sag Canal... My basement has never been flooded since the house was build in 1960....
Here's some pictures of the creek in the forest preserve shown from the bridge in the last picture... The creek down there is usually pretty shallow and slow flowing, but you can see it's pretty deep and flowing fast now to get rid of all the rain...