{"id":5657,"date":"2018-06-21T18:11:17","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T06:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/?p=5657"},"modified":"2018-06-21T18:11:17","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T06:11:17","slug":"stranded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/stranded\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranded"},"content":{"rendered":"

After raining most of yesterday, it continued to rain all through last night. Not just a gentle sprinkling either, rather the sort of torrential rain you wouldn’t believe could possibly keep bucketing down hour after hour.<\/p>\n

Early this morning Stephen of House Kragbol<\/a> took this photo of the end of our lane where it meets the main road. It probably goes without saying that having driven out there planning to go to work, he very quickly decided to abandon that idea. A wise choice, those little lumps sticking out of the water are the very tips of fenceposts.<\/p>\n

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Those are standard farm fence posts. They sit around a metre high. That’s a lot of water.<\/p><\/div>\n

So here we are — Deborah and Stephen, The Forbearing Husband, Favorite Stepson, myself, and the others in the handful of properties on our street — all stranded by floodwaters worthy of a diminutive ark. Fortunately the big wet sits several hundred yards away from our place, and although the stream around the Seven Acre Wood is running as high as we’ve ever seen it, there is still a goodly way to go before that breaks its banks.<\/p>\n

Mind you, the rain hasn’t stopped yet so there’s no saying my next post won’t be typed from a kayak.<\/p>\n

Happy Winter!<\/p>\n

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