The vast amount of rain made our grounds crew extremely frustrated week after week. This issue of having so much rain is that even when it appeared the grass was dry, the soil under it would still be extremely saturated. This prevented our grounds crew from putting any heavy machinery on the fields, including mowers which made field maintenance extremely difficult. Regardless our crew often found ways around the extreme wetness to try to get fields open and ready for play.
The issue of too much rain was not one experience just at the SoccerPlex. There was flooding, and flash flooding repeatedly throughout the DMV area including the flood in Ellicott City, and the numerous flash floods in the city of Frederick, as well as flooding throughout Washington D.C.; Many other sports fields and even golf courses ran into the issue of oversaturation that we here at the Plex suffered with.
