Love, bubs and life on our little farm

It is also storm season. And don't I know it!

Where we live, the title of the area is Aboriginal for "much thunder, little rain" and we certainly cop the Summer storms pretty strongly. However, thankfully the little rain part of the title hasn't been true for the last few years since we rely on rain for our water.

But the last few days we have slipped into our fairly typical Summer storm cycle, where we have hot mornings with terrible heavy humidity that brews into beautiful big thunderhead clouds on the horizon and then rumbles into existence as a heavy drenching storm. It briefly cools things down before the wet ground steams and adds to the humidity again, leading to a new day of heat and mugginess that creates the next storm. And repeat.

However, some days you get those "perfect storms" - a storm cell that is violent and terribly damaging and so much worse than our typical summer drenchings. We got one yesterday. I knew as soon as I saw it forming that it wasn;t going to be good. And it wasn't - Our area copped the worst of it. Deafening hail, torndado like winds that tore down countless tall gum trees around our properties and severe flash flooding that resulted in our laundry filling with water. All the paddocks were under water, we lost trees and I had to keep moving the girls to opposite ends of the house to the wind as it was so terrible I was convinced the house would be crushed at any time.

Our area lost the power almost immediately and we lost it for 8 hours as they desperately pieced the lines back together. Of course when you lose the power out here, you also lose running water as we need our pump to move water from the tanks into the house. Not a fun situation to be in with two kids. Although Elka thought cooking toast on the BBQ was pretty funny.

I am counting my blessings though - our property is quite sheltered being on the side of hill. The more exposed properties around copped a beating and their paddocks are blanketed in fallen giant gums and fences are smashed to smitherens. To add insult to injury we copped another decent storm today and are told to expect another one tomorrow.

aahh Summer in Australia!