Lets say there is a house on a hillside and a creek at the bottom of the hill. Without hiring out a surveying crews and equipment, what old fashioned way can one tell the amount of elevation difference between the standing spot on the front porch down to the water level?
I was thinking of an image of a right or left 45* triangle with the top point of the 45* line being the porch and the bottom point of the 45* line being the middle of the creek.
By going from the porch to the creek with a 100 foot clothes line or tape measure multiple times in succession (yeah it's rough but is close enough for the current need) the 45* line can be assigned that that distance. That's easy.
By using the distance from the porch to the creek alone, I don't know how to figure the length distance of the bottom horizontal line of the triangle or the distance from the bottom to the top of the vertical line of the triangle which would give me the elevation number I need.
The one vertical line in the triangle would be the elevation which would be how much that tiny creek would have to rise to cause flooding to the house.
Please don't give me a formula or an equation because if I can't do this then I couldn't read that either.
I was thinking of an image of a right or left 45* triangle with the top point of the 45* line being the porch and the bottom point of the 45* line being the middle of the creek.
By going from the porch to the creek with a 100 foot clothes line or tape measure multiple times in succession (yeah it's rough but is close enough for the current need) the 45* line can be assigned that that distance. That's easy.
By using the distance from the porch to the creek alone, I don't know how to figure the length distance of the bottom horizontal line of the triangle or the distance from the bottom to the top of the vertical line of the triangle which would give me the elevation number I need.
The one vertical line in the triangle would be the elevation which would be how much that tiny creek would have to rise to cause flooding to the house.
Please don't give me a formula or an equation because if I can't do this then I couldn't read that either.