A total of 30mm of rain was recorded for the week – more than half the average rainfall for July – with 19.6mm falling on Wednesday.

Storms and high winds caused power disruptions around Reids Flat for up to three hours on Wednesday after a roof was blown off a house impacting powerlines and again for around five hours on Thursday after further strong winds caused more damage to the electricity network.

Country Energy said around 25 customers from the Reids Flat area had their electricity disrupted.

“Country Energy crews responded quickly to commence repair work and to restore electricity to customers in what were very wet and boggy conditions, making accessing the damaged powerlines difficult,” Country Energy’s South Eastern regional general manager Phillip Green said.

“While Country Energy takes all steps to ensure that our network is safe and effective, we are unable to totally eliminate the effects of bad weather.

“I would like to thank residents for their patience while we worked to restore the power over both these days.”

Council crews spent the week cleaning up debris from roads and across the shire.

A spokesperson for council said: “Boorowa Council faired a lot better than many of the surrounding Councils.

“There was widespread tree damage throughout the local government area and only short term road closures whilst debris was removed.

“Council had cleaned up the majority of this debris by midday Wednesday.”

“Council crews are still continuing work on roads damaged by the storm in March, with the assistance of storm damage funding,” the spokesperson said.

The Boorowa News also found a water tank that came close to venturing on to the Murringo Road but was luckily prevented by a fence. For the year to date we have had 372.6mm of rain, above the average.