Paddy has finally finished his inspections of the place a full week after the crazy storm we experienced. Surprisingly we suffered very little damage.

But Paddy’s Garden did experience a lot of rain…

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You can see the lightning that is responsible for the four hour power blackout we had in our suburb…

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Here is the actual flash, just moments before we lost power:

Lightning flash in Paddy's Garden

More rain was dumped on Perth during the four hours of the storm than in the previous four months. The garden got a pretty good saturation and there were a few surprises the next day.

Toadstools grew after the heavy rains

Paddy suggested cutting the garlic sprouts back a little which let the sun in and dried the area out over the next couple of days. When we checked next the toadstools had moved on 🙂