A 13-year-old boy drowned after being swept into a drainage pipe during a heavy rainstorm on Thursday evening in Maryland.

The water collected in a French drain pipe needs to discharge somewhere. Unfortunately, not every property has an ideal location for draining hundreds or thousands of gallons of rainwater.

Water passing through the soil would discover this gravel, immediately drop down through it to the perforated drain pipe and then exit to daylight, never having a chance to enter the garage.