They laughed at my flood berm, so I scheduled it for demolition. 3 days later, a storm rolled through and turned their laughter into $2 million worth of water damage. That’s not me trying to sound dramatic. That’s just how it happened. My name’s Daniel Harper. I’m 46, retired civil engineer, spent a little over 20 years working storm water and infrastructure for a midsized county in eastern North Carolina.
drainage basins, culverts, retention ponds, FEMA maps, that kind of thing. I’m not flashy. I don’t golf. I don’t belong to a country club. I like diesel engines, black coffee, and knowing exactly where water is going to move before it gets there. About 8 years ago, I bought a small house on a stretch of riverfront land just outside town. Nothing fancy.
