Thanks guys. I guess I'm lucky compared to some here. No permanent damage so far. But a lot of snow to melt yet. We had a concrete pad removed from the back of the house in November last year. It had sluffed down and was grading back to the house. There is now a dirt trench back there where it was and I had a trough cut into it for the rains to make their way out. It is now full of 4" of ice and the water had to go somewhere.

I was lucky to have been able to snowblow a 4' wide trench a few feet off the back of the house last sunday so today I could actually get at the problem areas. I would be screwed without my inlaws here on the island. Winter sucks. Now I have to decide if I modify the existing window wells and excavate the drain system and put styrofoam around it to keep the frostline off it, or just hire a bobcat and take the dirtline down 16" and feather it into the yard to have a gentle swale back there (eliminating the wells altogether.) $$$

Winter sucks.