70+ MPH Storm - Weather damage at the Muddy Bucket Farm

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Yesterday, we had a severe storm come thru and it has blown down half the garden. The wind gusts were well above 70 MPH and we got about 1.5 inches of rain - all inside approx 60 minutes. I got a lot of broken tomato vines and lost some green fruit, but was otherwise very fortunate not to lose a whole plant.

This is the same storm that killed at least two campers over in the Cades Cove area of the Smokey Mountains. There are some pictures below that show the garden as I found it at first light this morning.

Fortunately, none of the dwarf varieties got hit too badly. I had several of the support poles broken off at the ground and some that were simply pulled up out of the ground. How do you do that???? All of the dwarfs will be fine, but my "indeterminates and Cherry types" took a heavy beating. I repaired most of the ones pictured below, but I will probably allow many to just sprawl because I think I would do more damage trying to get things back in the air on some of them.

I think the corn is totally lost. All of the stalks are broken at the ground. Maybe a few will come back, but my expectations are not very high. On a positive note, the Okra came thru just fine.

Here's the pictures. The first two show the damage across the street at my neighbors house - a bradford pear and an oak tree. He also lost a dogwood. The last one shows a pile of limbs that were broken out of the back yard maple and pine trees.