England has been hard hit by floods this year, including a relatively close call for some of my in-laws. Turriff Show was even cancelled a couple of weeks back because of the downpours overnight. My garden even had a couple of huge puddles, and we practically live on a 1 in 10 slope. I have a nice simple solution. Take a huge can of no-more-big-gaps, and squirt a 3 foot high barrier of solid expanding foam all round your house. Higher if need be. For comedy marketing purposes I’d call it nomorebigfloods or ‘no more big sewagey carpets’. It might make a mess of the rosebeds, but they can be replanted more quickly than you can renovate your entire lower floor. If the foam could be made 100% starch based, I bet it could even be compostable - and eventually GOOD for the roses. The ever present environmental problems raise their heads again. Spraying all that evil foam into the world can’t be a great idea. However, throwing out your home contents and buying afresh is pretty evil too. Lesser of two evils? Excellent diagram of a house there, I'm sure you'll agree.