Last night, our electricity disappeared again around 5.30 PM (for some unknown reason) and then suddenly in the night (around 9 PM) we were surprised by a sudden storm -with high winds with lots of rain.....
In the morning, we discovered that at least one reason for (our blackout) was that a cable along the road had broken.
Apparently one that went to our junction box -because many others houses were no longer affected by the power cut.
However, we'd lost our electricity long before the storm broke and so it seems that there there were two "blackouts": The main (general) one -which lasted until around midnight -and our private blackout which went on until 11.30 AM this morning.
This morning, we woke up to quite a bit of storm damage.
Luckily nothing too serious: Mostly (large) papaya trees with their tops broken off.
Fortunately, we had earlier had a few cut down after the lads had finished the pig pen. One had fallen on the roof of the new external kitchen -but there doesn't seem to be any serious damage....
So, after feeding the animals, we a lot of work in the garden clearing up the mess.
Now we have lots of leaves for animal fodder, plus several papaya tops to feed to the pigs, some unripe fruit to cook as vegetables -and some stumps to put around the borders of various garden patches....
