August went out with something of a bang last week - a huge storm swept across the department on Monday night bringing down trees and depriving many of electricity, phones and internet for days on end. A week later and the roadsides are still littered with branches and all around you can hear the chainsaws at work.
In fact we were relatively lucky as the electricity came back in the night so we had only lost power for a few hours. No internet all week though but that gave us more time to deal with the aftermath in the garden.
A couple of small trees were brought down in the orchard - not too bad we thought - but then we spotted the potager.
Basically the vegetable patch was half buried by a fallen tree.
Luckily a branch had impaled itself into the ground and was supporting lots of the weight so the tomato plants were battered but not annihilated .
Lots of work to do clearing up but at least we didn't lose the contents of the freezer like many people we know!
Note to selves : must definitely buy a generator.
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