CONIFER – Summoning deputies to his Rea Avenue address, an irate homeowner complained that a neighbor’s flood control efforts were controlling the flood straight onto his property. He also said they refused to discuss the unfortunate drainage scheme in a friendly fashion, leading him to believe they’d done it just to be cussed. Contacted by officers, the hometown hydrologists said their nagging neighbor was all wet. While freely admitting having dug a channel along a private access road in hopes of draining a persistent puddle, they felt well within their legal rights to do so and were certain the action didn’t incommode the complainant one whit. And if the mud starts flying, they warned, they had enough dirt on their accuser to bury him. Hearing this, their accuser nearly jumped his banks, predicting he’d soon fall on his neighbors in civil court like a Mississippi thunderstorm.