All the horses are safe in the flood. We are facing catastrophic flooding

I have been able to eyeball all the horses. The horses on the other side of the creek are all above flood water with access to plenty of high ground, so barring accidents they should all be safe.
The old horses are all shivering, but I cannot put rugs on them, as the fence is not secure and Arthur can and does escape. I cannot risk them drowning with a rug on.

These are all lessons learned to address the issues of how we need to fence before the next flood, so we can keep all the horses safe and rug the older horses to prevent them from losing weight from shivering. There is shelter, but Cleo will stand and watch the young horses. She has a maternal instinct for Paddy, as we got him at 6 weeks and she will stand in the rain and watch him from across the paddock, bless her. Paddy is the one who called out, I've put his playlist in a card where he appears in the video. He was smaller than our greyhound when we got him.

Arthur the rescue is looking skinny and I'm expecting him to lose a little weight over these next few days. Nothing that we cannot sort out when the weather laments a little. We are struggling to get that weight on him.

As I mentioned many times in my previous videos, the entire shallow creek flat will flood and indeed it has. It has been formed from centuries of flooding, the water has carved it out.

Fun fact: I decided not to put up permanent fencing, I wanted to live here and see what we needed and have used star pickets with electric tape. We can easily remove the star pickets and reposition it.
I also wanted to wait to check where we will build. The guy who has done our excavation is excellent and where he suggested is free from excessive run off through this flood. Kudos again to that contractor.

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