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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Eljason79 on 2024-10-12 15:41:23+00:00.

I live in a low lying area next to the intercoastal in Volusia and we got 3-4 feet of surge that stands until the tide falls which takes a few days. At low tide it drains but high tide spits it all back into the street. Rinse and repeat for 4-6 tide cycles before everything normalizes. A lot of us on the street have large low spots in our yards that have to be pumped into the drainage system. My crawl space is probably the lowest point so it all flows and stands unless it’s pumped or dissipates. After a long day of cleanup my wife and I went to have dinner to relax. At dinner my phone starts blowing up with texts from my neighbor to turn my pump off because she can’t walk around her house (the storm drain sits right in between our property lines). I immediately call another neighbor who tells me the drains are back flowing. While I’m on that call I get a text from her that she MOVED my hose to shoot water back under my house and tried to tell me what I was going was illegal. She called 911 and they sent out a firefighter to tell her what I was doing was legal and had to be done. She still proceeds to tell me that I need to consider the neighbors (she is the only one slightly affected by my pumping) and I shouldn’t be pumping water into the street. Malicious compliance time. I move my hose to my side yard that slopes down to her yard before making its way to the street flooding her dirt driveway (80% of which is on my property). Guess whose yard is now flooded and who was told by my police department that she is no longer allowed on my property under any circumstances meaning the only place she can park is on the street which is illegal as it’s an old neighborhood with very narrow roads. Be nice to your neighbors. She is so far over a barrel now I almost feel bad for her.

Update: Thank you all for the laughs and advice. It has truly made my cleanup go so much faster. I’m sorry but I’m still very green posting to Reddit and don’t know how to link it but I posted this in r/badneighbors if you want to see the text exchange while I was at the restaurant and the aftermath when I got home. Y’all be safe out there.