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Storm in a tea cup





Well it was a bit bigger than that filling buckets with rain water. Starting Saturday evening with a wind arriving, the sky turning grey with a few large spots of rain. A huge crash of thunder and flash of lightning coincided with farmer J seconds before hand unplugging the equipment in our butchery, it could of been expensive!

We had just finished processing two pigs having a lot of meat in the cold room and freezers.Electricity left us followed by 30 minutes of torrential rain, it was like someone throwing buckets of water down. Hail stones fell, water gushed every where in such a short period of time.

Luckily the generator came into good use, priorities decided - cold room, freezers and electric fencing for the pigs. Damage could of been worse Sunday was spent gathering the gravel of our drive way, removing the mud and stones washed down on the road from the pigs. Water flooded through the bottom wall of the unused part of our gites building so that will need attention very soon. Farmer J cleared the road where a tree have fallen. It was a busy morning for chain saws they could be heard all around.

Power came back Sunday afternoon thankfully in time for an evening meal with friends. How you miss electricity when you haven't got it. I have yet to look to cosely at the damage in the veggie patch, I think it may be a bit upsetting.
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