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Rainwater Is A Gutteral Language

Pulling up to a beautiful house today * (and this picture is only a part of it) I noticed something that bothered me before I got out of the car.
There are no gutters.
Anywhere.
Now you can look at where the gutters should normally be and see that this was the design.
The fascias drop off at a 45 degree angle, intentionally, which is not exactly easy to hang a gutter onto!
The fascias have become an architectural feature.  This is a very lovely detail, but it isn't as if we don't have any rain around here.

 
Rainwater can move very fast along a roof during heavy rains.  Notice in this spot how the upper roof drains onto a lower roof. 
And how water from those two lower roofs drains into a single valley.
Water from that valley must shoot out with some force when it is raining hard.
This is the result. 
Gallons of water will eventually carve quite the valley into garden soil.  It already has.
What most people don't realize is this:  1" of rain water will drop 6,000 gallons of water onto a 1,500 square foot roof.
That represents a fairly normal, if ... more

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