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Originally Posted by Rallye Sport
Speedy recovery mate, enjoy that time off first though 
Autumn is here in that the days are getting shorter, the sun lower and the trees are starting to change. With sunny days in the low to mid 30's and ground temp still at 19 degrees the grass is still growing. This is 10mm of growth in 4 days.
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And my view for the week as we follow the leader, double cut ready for the coming competitions. We do mix it up though with a sneaky overtake or bump and run through out the day 
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We've had our first rain, problem being it rained too much. The Friday before last, ahead of the first round of club champs and with the course immaculate we had 80mm in 45 minutes.
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With the first round called off this is what we were greeted to the next morning.
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Gladly though alot of members turned up to help and the majority of the damage was cleaned up by the end of the day.
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We were back in on the Sunday and we've put alot of long hours in this week to have the course ready for champs this weekend. We're all exhausted and I'm looking forward to a sleep in and a long drive in the Escort tomorrow.
The same hole as the pictures above as of yesterday afternoon, 7 days later almost to the minute that the storm hit.
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I know that feeling of turning up to see your hard work destroyed in a blink of a moment. Mother nature is truly cruel sometimes. Over the last twenty years I've been with my employer, we've been smashed by storms multiple times.
The worst was about 12 years ago, a massive supercell that was later determined to be a tornado. The whole town and was destroyed. Nothing was spared in the nursery, every plant blown down, destroyed all the shade sails (even pulling the poles out of the ground), the display gardens flattened. It took months to put it all back together. We were also going for 4 in a row Best Nursery Award, but the place just wasn't ready in the end despite a massive effort.
The most recent being last Christmas eve, followed a week later on New Years Eve. The first storm ruined all but two of our shade sails (which were on their way out anyway), the second storm finished off the remaining two. The boundary fence was blown over, the shop flooded. This all happened while several staff were on leave, the guys were in there on Christmas day as well. As always happens, the clean-up and repairs take forever, we only just got the fence replaced, the shade sails replaced a month ago. So, it basically took 4 months.
All of that is wasted time and money that could be better used on other improvements. Not to mention the emotional toll, its so disheartening to see what you work so hard for destroyed.