{"id":6190,"date":"2007-07-20T11:28:42","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T11:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/2007\/07\/raging-torrent-small-scale\/"},"modified":"2007-07-20T11:28:42","modified_gmt":"2007-07-20T11:28:42","slug":"raging-torrent-small-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/07\/20\/raging-torrent-small-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Raging torrent (small scale)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we moved into our home, we noticed a small ditch at the end of the garden (which is actually above the level of our house). Our neighbours have partly infilled it to extend their garden, putting in a good-sized culvert as they did so.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of weeks ago, for the first time since we have lived here, I noticed a trickle of water running through it. Even in mid-winter, I hadn&#8217;t seen water in it before.<\/p>\n<p>Last night and this morning we had continuous and very heavy rain. We don&#8217;t have a gauge, so I&#8217;ve no idea how much has fallen, but I&#8217;d guess an inch-and-a-half at least, maybe two inches. In a lull in the rain, I went outside to assess the damage (smashed plants, mud down the drive) and could plainly hear rushing water. A glimpse\u00a0into the hedge revealed a raging torrent (albeit on a small scale) rushing down the ditch, enough to draw our neighbours out to investigate. In true BBC-stylee &#8220;here&#8217;s-a-picture-of-my-dog&#8217;s-bottom-in-a-puddle-to-illustrate-the-dramatic-weather&#8221; citizen journalism, here is a dramatic grainy cameraphone photo of said torrent:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"dramatic grainy image\" alt=\"dramatic grainy image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/images\/ragingtorrent.jpg\" align=\"top\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Impressed? Today, Ruralville and grayblog, tomorrow fame and fortune and a photo on the Beeb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we moved into our home, we noticed a small ditch at the end of the garden (which is actually above the level of our house). Our neighbours have partly infilled it to extend their garden, putting in a good-sized culvert as they did so. A couple of weeks ago, for the first time since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-east-sussex","category-home-and-garden","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}