IT was a humid afternoon at the Fenwick’s Woodhouse property last Thursday until a menacing weather system made its way toward the farm.

Within ten minutes – hail, wind and rain had battered the farm - uprooted trees and snapped branches and trunks.

Alan Fenwick sought shelter in the carport where he said hail shot through horizontally while his son, Oliver was stuck in the shearing shed.

“The hail just got stronger and stronger…it was getting pretty wild.” Mr Fenwick said.

“We’ve been here for 26 years but have never seen anything like that … you see these things in the paper and the news but we’ve never experienced wind like that.”

Mr Fenwick said the hail was so loud that no one heard the 20-year-old tree beside the family home come crashing down, nor could they hear a tree snap and fall onto the shearing shed.

“For the roar of the wind and noise of the hail we couldn’t hear it,” he said.

The family’s new puppy, Parsons Terrier, Brian was under the shade of the tree outside the house when the storm came through and when the tree fell Brian was only narrowly missed.

 “He’s a very lucky dog,” Mr Fenwick said.

The family now has the mammoth task of cleaning up the property, getting the damage assessed, clearing fallen and broken trees and repairing the shed.

Mr Fenwick said the property was still without power on Friday with generators keeping things turning over.

He said the clean-up would take time but that he was grateful everyone was safe.