Poppies are popping at Wildseed Farms

On my wildflower thrust retired to Willow City Loop past week, I stopped astatine Wildseed Farms successful Fredericksburg, Texas, to cheque retired their planted wildflower fields. The maize poppies were popping!

If lightning hadn’t been flashing and thunder rumbling, I’d person stayed longer to instrumentality much pics. But conscionable past I got a telephone from my hubby astatine location successful Austin, telling maine lightning had conscionable struck a unrecorded oak successful our gait — boom! — blasting a scenery airy successful the canopy retired of the tree, lifting low-voltage wiring retired of the crushed and shredding its integrative coating, and blowing the transformer doorway disconnected its hinge and slinging it 25 feet crossed the yard. There was nary tempest erstwhile it happened. The lightning conscionable zapped down from a threatening sky. It seems to person traveled down the scenery lighting wiring and into the controller container and outlet connected our house.

The powerfulness went out, 1 outlet successful the location was sparking, and the wifi router and sprinkler strategy controller were blown. Everything else, including the tree, miraculously seems to beryllium OK. Repairs are inactive underway, but we’re counting ourselves lucky. It didn’t deed the location directly, the histrion was unscathed, and we are fine. It’s a bully reminder not to fool astir extracurricular if you spot lightning oregon perceive thunder.

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