Hi: I live in northeast Ohio and had my lawn seeded on October 14th. The weather has been mainly in the mid 50s for the highs and dipping down to the 30s at night. The past couple of days, the highs have been in the 40s with high winds and hail. Today, I noticed fine grass blades coming up and the tips are green and by the ground is brown. The weather is supposed to move back into the 50s within a couple of days, but I'm concerned that there's been some major damage to the seedlings at this point. Is there still a chance that I will get a lawn from this planting either now, or in the spring? Thanks in advance, M

Ive developed a serious problem with my basement thanks to my neighbors new drive. A couple of things that are causing my basement to leak when it rains. First they doubled the size of their concrete driveway and it does slope toward my yard. So I get that drainage. Their roof gutters also run under their drive and extend all the way to the fence line which is less than 3 ft to my foundation. I can clearly see that the water has changed the lay of my yard and the water just heads for my house. They arent going to do anything about their gutter drains. So what should I do? I have thought about running pvc to the ends of their gutter drains and routing that elsewhere. I only have about 2-3 feet from the foundation to their driveway and the gutter pipe ends. Not sure that a French drain would help me here so close to the house. Ive seen some stuff at Lowes that resembles a channel that can be put in the ground but man that stuff adds up real fast. Anybody have any ideas. Im tired of drying my basement out at the slightest rain.