Veteran rocker Eddie Van Halen returned from touring in Canada to his Hollywood Hills home in Los Angeles Monday only to find his backyard and pool flooded with mud and debris caused by a broken water main.

The rock guitarist could have come home to find an even bigger disaster but fortunately, it is only his backyard and pool that suffered from the deluge.

“You're tired, you're beat up, you come back to find your backyard completely wasted,” Van Halen’s publicist and live-in girlfriend, Janie Liszewski, told the Los Angeles Times.

She also told the paper that the guitarist’s reaction when he set eyes on his property was, “Where's the pool?”

“The pool, I don't even know how to describe it. It's non-existent. It's mud,” she said.

Liszewski added that the potted plants and trees were greatly damaged but that firefighters fortunately prevented the muddy destruction from reaching the house.

Van Halen's residence was the only one affected by the deluge. Firefighters prevented the water from entering the house by placing sandbags around the construction.

The flood was apparently caused by an air valve on the water main that broke. The paper cited a Department of Water and Power spokesman explaining that soil erosion from recent heavy rains was a possible reason for the valve failure.

Van Halen, 52, had been in Edmonton, Alberta, with his band mates, brother Alex Van Halen, 16-year-old son Wolfgang Van Halen and original lead vocalist David Lee Roth.

Van Halen announced their comeback this summer and promised to rock better than ever. The four members embarked on their reunion tour in late September and have enjoyed sold-out shows and great reviews so far.

The ever-flamboyant Roth said this summer that this tour would be only the beginning. “It's not like the Police - we're not going to do one tour,” Roth said. “The idea is that it will continue on and on. This is not a reunion - this is a new band.”