Question about a sudden rain shower on a fresh pour

I was finishing a 20x30 patio slab in Charlotte last week when a pop-up thunderstorm hit about 20 minutes after we finished the bull float. We scrambled to cover it with plastic sheeting, but the surface still got pitted from the heavy drops. We re-screeded and troweled it once the rain passed, but I'm worried about long-term durability. Has anyone else had to salvage a pour like this, and did it hold up okay?

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nora_park7210d ago

Ugh, that's the worst kind of bad luck. My one attempt at a small garden pad looked like the MOON after a surprise sprinkle.

harper_smith10d ago

Tell me about it. I spent a whole weekend leveling and tamping mine down, only for a hard rain to wash all the fines right out and leave nothing but lumpy gravel. It's like the ground just rejects the idea of being flat and neat. I ended up putting down those grid things you fill with gravel, which helped a lot, but it was a whole extra project I didn't plan on.