Ex Tropical Cyclone Oswald

 Ex TC Oswald.  

The tree across the road came down on Saturday morning.

We knew that the big ex tropical cyclone was coming.  Surprising to see a tree down before it really even started.

This one came down Saturday evening

Okay. this was a scary amount of wind blowing - felt very cyclonic. I felt like one of those idiot journalists reporting to you, live, from .....

Still another came down Sunday morning. That made three.

 

Corn is blown right over here.  But it is still okay.  Corn rocks.  We have been eating corn ever since.  It is so sweet and tender that we don't have to cook it. This was a precious crop. It took four attempts at sowing the seeds to get this.  We were aiming to have it ready for Christmas.  Alas February corn is delicious, too.





A funny thing.  - (Picture looks fuzzy? it's raining)
Do you see the overflow spout of the tank being blown sideways.  This is our new tank. We had  eagerly awaited its filling. Filled up Friday afternoon 25th January.  This is picture is Sunday afternoon.  Unbeknown to us, this overflow was washing away the foundations of the tank which caused a crease in the join in the bottom. By Thursday water was spurting out of the bottom.  We had to get the guy in to fix the tank - the tank needed to be emptied first.

The rain is falling today and the tanks is refilling.  Oh bliss.