Had a retaining wall failure in my back yard on 4/4/2025.  The rain had washed out some of the gravel and knocked over my 2 foot high railroad tie retaining wall.  Approximately 40 to 50 feet of the fence above this retaining wall has been damaged and is leaning about 15 degrees with many broken boards.  The ground is supersaturated. Torrential rainfall on April 3 and April 4.  Doe Run Dam Reservoir had overflowed causing severe flooding In Pioneer Park in Kenton County and also had caused Banklick Creek to flow out of its banks on 4/5/2025.  I have heard on the news that many parks in the Cincinnati area are closed due to flooding.  There are already many local impassible roads in the Cincinnati metropolitan area and some locations in northern Kentucky due to the Ohio River going to 60 feet the next day.  There are now many restrictions due to road closures due to the flooding Ohio and Licking Rivers.

There are also several road closures or partial closures due to land slides in Campbell County, Kentucky and in Hamilton County, Ohio.
 
Before the torrential rains, I was only to mow about half of my yard on 4/2/2025 due to the extreme sogginess.  Today, this sogginess is even greater and the sogginess is so great that I may not be able to mow it until at least 2 weeks and the grass may become at least a foot tall by the middle of next week in these areas.

The ground is so wet that especially pine trees and certain species of deciduous trees already in leaf could easily uproot even with just moderate winds.  The heavy rainfall has cause many trees to start having moderate size leaves which will make some species prone to freeze damage due to a freeze or hard frost in the forecast on April 8, 2025.  Only one day of freeze is in the current 16 day GFS forecast which is on April 8, 2025 with a low of 29 degrees.

Notice that 2 homeowners have either hired pumping contractors or have pumps to pump out water from their flooded basements yesterday.

In order to repair part of my collapsed retaining wall and my fence, I am going to have to get one 20 ton truckload of
3" size channel lining rock and put it on a 2 to 1 slope to replace the collapsed part of the 2 foot high wall.  I will have to get one truckload of topsoil to raise the last 5 feet of my yard by approximately 0 inches to 12 inches on a taper which had sunk by the fence.  I will have to get a new wooden fence this summer.  I am going to the work myself and it is going to cost me $4000.00 for the materials ($750.00 for the 12 CY load of topsoil, $750.00 for the 20 ton load of channel lining and $2500.00 for the fence materials.)  Since I do not have flood insurance,  my regular homeowner's policy will not cover this damage because this was due to supersaturated soil from a huge amount of rain this Spring so far.

Over 11 inches of rain (almost a foot) the last 30 days as of 4/6/2025.  My yard now has been the wettest ever since I have move into the house approximately 15 years ago with a damaged retaining wall and fence.  My next door neighbor's in-ground swimming pool at 747 Johns Hill Road had overflowed due to the torrential rains which is even making my backyard situation even worse.