A serious question, hoping someone maybe able to answer. We have had an enormous amount of rain tonight and in a quiet moment when the surface water drained away, we were left with bubbling from the ground. Kids stood on it and it is not from a critter, it is actually bubbling up from the ground. Could this be from the ground water at saturation point? Trying to force air through this hole?

That used to happen to me. After heavy rain, a small fountain of rainwater would bubble up in my driveway; it was probably up to 3 inches high.

It was due to a broken water pipe under the ground. I fixed it by putting some roadbase down.

Depending how large the bubbling is, it might be worth getting someone to look at it; you could end up with subsidence that might undermine the foundations of the house.

It sounds like air being forced out of the ground. But on the good side that means you have well areated soils so it should hold a lot of water.

This happened around our place after last years floods - it flooded hard right through our property and when the water subsided the ground all up the drive and between the concrete slabs under the house was all bubbling (actually I have a picture somewhere....)It was scary as I thought maybe the whole house might move around but so far so good!

It happens a fair bit up here at my place in townsvill. Both teh ground and concrete slabs expell air as the rain water flows through them. Never had an major subsudence or anything from it and i live on very expansive clay soils.

Just found this thread. We had 80mm 2 days ago, and I noticed our sandy soil did the same thing.