We had a short yet rather violent thunderstorm roll through the Philly area last night around evening rush hour, complete with very heavy rain, hail, and lots of thunder and lightning. Unfortunately all of the heavy rain really gave my corn a beat down:

And even my planters, which have drainage holes at the bottom, were overflowing:

I left the corn like that overnight and this morning I started putting some bamboo sticks into the bed and staking up the corn. I don't have enough sticks to stake everything, but I was able to get the most horizontal stalks pointing back skywards. Hopefully the others will bend their way back up after some sunshine. Or I'll need to run and grab more bamboo to finish staking everything back up over the weekend.

But luckily it doesn't look like any stalks broke, they just bent over. Whew!