She now feels stranded out in the split-level house with its picture window she once loved.
What we've seen in Sydney is that the problems start when transport options don't exist and crowds are left stranded out on the streets.
Hailwood explained to Henry that he expected his car to break down and wanted to have some way of passing the time while stranded out on the circuit.
"If we lose to the Cubs," said Doris Kearns Goodwin, the author and Red Sox fan, "we're just stranded out in the middle of the ocean".
The Norwegian cargo ship, which rescued the mainly Afghan asylum seekers from a sinking Indonesia boat six days ago, was stranded out at sea with Australia, Indonesia and Norway refusing to take it in.
When he received a call from Xiao Wenxie, 41, to say he was stranded out on the sands, he swam out to help, crossing one channel and attempting to cross another to save his friend.
Thousands of people - mostly Rohingya Muslims fleeing persecution and poverty in Myanmar, but also Bangladeshis looking for work - are thought to be stranded out at sea.
Many were stranded out in the streets without food, she said.
