{"id":185,"date":"2008-11-14T23:11:06","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T21:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.my-grape-vine.com\/blog\/?p=185"},"modified":"2012-09-11T11:35:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T11:35:57","slug":"what-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.my-grape-vine.com\/blog\/what-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"What a week!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi grape growing friends.<\/p>\n

This isn’t the regular grape growing blogs I usually send out, but I thought I’d share my week with you :-\/<\/p>\n

On Monday, I launched the new Complete Grape Growing System<\/a>\u00a0and as said in the previous blog, not without some hick-ups \ud83d\ude41 , so I had to extend the promotion to give everybody a fair chance to get into the program.\u00a0 I’ve since had some very possitive feedback about what the system offers and will continue to add valuable grape growing info to it in the future.\u00a0 I’m glad to report that the problems, has been sorted out and things are moving allong just fine now – a perfect day, until …<\/p>\n

it started to rain which isn’t good, because most of my grape varieties\u00a0are\u00a0flowering right now!\u00a0<\/p>\n

It kept on raining\u00a0like I haven’t seen in our valley for as long as I have been living here.\u00a0 The whole night it went on bucketing down and continued\u00a0Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

Our mountain stream by Wednesday morning (+- 09:00 am)<\/p>\n

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\u00a0– we never could imagine what was\u00a0about to happen ..<\/p>\n

Things started to look bad\u00a0by Wednesday afternoon as\u00a0the rivers started to flood the banks, but it kept on raining and raining and raining.<\/p>\n

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By Wednesday evening things started to look REALLY bad…<\/p>\n

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Thursday morning after a night of destruction\u00a0here in our valley, it seemed like the\u00a0weather was finally clearing up – we were mistaken…<\/p>\n

A\u00a0new flood of rain poured down in the mountains surrounding the valley, feeding the already flooded rivers\u00a0even more water!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Slowly the flooded river started\u00a0carving into the river-banks feet by feet – getting dangerously close to my vineyards<\/p>\n

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By lunch we already had 215 mm (+-9 inches) of rain and finally the weather started to clear up (at last!) but not without huge losses …<\/p>\n

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Some vineyards on the river-banks were totally washed away, and others suffered trellis structure losses as the soil was so wet, the supports simply gave way.<\/p>\n

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What a week it has been?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Luckily it is weekend and it seems like the rivers are setteling down.\u00a0\u00a0Thankfully we are all still alive and well, but next week will have it’s own\u00a0challenges as we will start to\u00a0do damage control.<\/p>\n

I really hope your week was better than mine, but surely we appreciate the “drier” weekend here.<\/p>\n

I hope and pray you will have a great weekend.<\/p>\n

Thanks for all your support<\/p>\n

Danie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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