Started last weekend with a rainstorm. It was p!$$ing down!!
As the drought had denuded our back yard of most of the grass, and the yard slopes downward to our carport, we ended up with much of our back yard covering the concrete floor there. In places it was 2.5~3" thick!
Took FOUR HOURS for the two of us to scrape & sweep up the dirt, then hose off what we couldn't pick up.
This is what we shovelled off the carport floor:
The bricks on this now-dead garden bed were 1" above ground level before the storm:
... and this is what the golf club fairway near us looked like when we took the hounds for a walk there next day:
(The ripples are dead grass banked up as the water flowed over the fairway. )