What the high-water mark remembers

Low cloud rolling over a grassy ridge

There is a stain on the retaining wall behind the community hall, about chest height, the colour of weak tea. It is the high-water mark from June 2018. Nobody put up a plaque. The line is the plaque.

The green hills above the community hall

Four people who live within a block of that wall agreed to talk to us. Their accounts of the same week do not entirely match, which is the most interesting thing about them.

We keep saying “the flood” like it was one day. It was eleven days.

Neighbour, interviewed May 2026

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