We often get frost heaves here in early spring. The expanding thawing earth moves into ridges and sometimes sinkholes while last winter's snow melts. This can run overground or under a heaved layer of ice as deep as 4 feet. The water doesn't absorb into the ground but stays on or near the surface, on top of a lower layer of ice, creating lots of mud. We call this time of year Mud season.
Unfortunately, this year the height of my shop's concrete floor is below the recently heaved earth around it, so the spring snow runoff has entered, flooded the concrete floor and alternately freezes on cold nights and thaws during the day. March rains have added even more water.
This should all subside once truly warm weather gets here and the base ice in the earth thaws. At which point the shop floor will again be above the normal ground level. But for now, my shop is unusable.
Just waiting for warm weather....
