Well…man, it took a long time for the rain to stop so I could get the ladder out and work on the downspout to get it to drain….and I started to take it apart but then thought I’d check the gutter itself for leaves and other stuff to see if that was the problem…and yep, there was a  quarter inch thick mat of leaves and other debris that had solidified over the downspout hole…and it had sealed it so perfectly that not a drop of water could get through it…cripes, if I tried to seal it off with rubber and adhesive it wouldn’t have worked that well….so it saved me from taking the downspout off and only had to replace three screws and put the extension back on…so, that was easy and only took about 10 minutes including getting the ladder out of the garage and putting it back. There must have been 50 gallons of water in the gutter and at 7 pounds a gallon, the gutter was holding up 350 pounds and I know it’s not built to do that…and I even got a bike ride in and got some grass seed put in the bare spots in the back yard and raked that in since it is going to rain the next couple of days…so it looks like I’ll have a full day off the bike tomorrow with the storms that are supposed to happen starting in the morning…but the rain is going to start around midnight and go all day tomorrow….and it will be nice to not have the water running onto my front steps…now it’s time to take it easy for a while after getting some stuff done today….