It seems every year we get one or two storms that do incredible damage to the garden. We experienced 3 or 4 of those this week. It wasn’t pretty. We had extreme wind that uprooted, bent, and snapped the leaves and stalks of several plants. Even the plants that were tied to bamboo rods went down (taking the bamboo rods with them). It was amazing. Then we had several hail storms, some producing hail stones as large as dimes. Then it continued to rain between 0.5 and 1.0 inches. That’s a lot of water for a desert. I had lakes in the lawn, corn, and blackberries for days.