We have been raining something fierce here as well. Last night I woke up and the first though I had was PIRATES!!! The lightning was so fierce. The ground is so saturated that my mastiff with his giantness is just tearing up the lawn with his weight. My lot holds a lot of water. I have puddles here and puddles there. This spring I intend on buying some dirt and filling some it them but I just get freaked out that I could be flooding toward the house. I was also thinking of some kind of drainage system... but not sure how that would work.