About 1am this morning, the lightning woke me up, and then we had a few brief moments of hail, followed by a torrential downpour. Above you can see what accumulated on Bobby's back ramp. When we got up this morning, there were still small piles on the front ramp and at the end of every downspout. Three of my tomato plants are now headless, and some of the pea leaves are missing chunks out of them. I've never seen that much hail in all my life. Still, it's nothing like what my parent's neighborhood experienced Thursday afternoon. Here's a link to the local paper: http://www.mountaineagle.com/NF/omf/eagle/archive_display.html?[rkey=0106564+[cr=gdn
The house with the tree on it belonged to my godparents, and thankfully my parents only had very minor damage (spindles off the ramp, my niece's toys scattered throughout the neighborhood, shingles off the shed, trees down behind the house - oh, and the turtle shell is gone from the sandbox as well as all the sand - 4 year old Carly is very upset by that.) I'm just thankful everyone is safe.
2 comments:
It was a scary storm! I thought I would have to get the kids and get in the closet!
It was VERY loud at my house! How did the voting booth volunteer work go? Did you make everyone's voting experience a pleasant one:)
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