Another Garden Update

So, it is a bit ironic that the week after I post pictures of our thriving garden the "storm of the year" shows up in Arkansas (in our neighborhood to be exact) and wipes pretty much the whole thing out. The huge event happened while the kids and I have been in Utah, but from my conversations with Greg he says it was quite the storm. Imagine thunder and lightening right on top of each other, hail threatening to break through the windows, rain coming down in literal bucket loads. More water than our neighborhood knew what to do with. There was a house down the street from us on the corner that had water coming. There was a river down the street (one of the pictures below will show the water line on a mailbox.) Greg went out with the neighbor at about 2:00 am to assess the damage. Thanks to our french drain, that took all the water away from the back of our house, the damage we survived was limited to our garden, oh, but that poor garden.

This is what the hail and rain did to the corn. Just as the ears were beginning to form

More pictures of the lovely garden, but what a beautiful morning to follow such a crazy storm

Our lovely pumpkin plant that was destined to grow a blue ribbon pumpkin!

The wind snapped trees in half and there were a couple trampolines that were picked up and carried over fences.You can see the water line on this mail box. It is hard to imagine that much water coming down the road!