After the parade…
After the rodeo…
After returning home…
Vernon was napping, and I was watching out the window at a darkening sky. I have multiple weather apps on my iPad. A quick click or two, and I saw the radar with an evil pink eye headed straight for us. A weather alert for severe thunderstorms accompanied the map.
I woke Vernon, told him I was putting my car in the garage, and asked if there was anything he wanted to put away! I walked by my trampoline and decided I’d better tie it to my fence as well! I’m glad I did!
Soon, the far hills disappeared in a veil of storm. I hoped it held more water than ice. I’d walked my garden, taking stock of its appearance. My corn was just knee high by the 4th of July as adage dictates. While there were plenty of weeds, I still held hope my plants would make it after their slow, cold start.
It wasn’t gorgeous, but it would produce.
Thirty minutes later, I have my doubts. My corn is shredded. My lettuce pulverized. Green beans and squash may come out of it. The tops of my tomato plants have been sheared off, but the five gallon buckets they’re growing in protected the bottom two thirds. The raspberries look rough, but will come out of it.
Statistics: 64 mph gusts with .49” including quarter sized hail. It was worse down at Johnny’s, he had 1.11” of rain and hail. Tess’s garden is gone as well.
There’s a few branches down… Megan has some holes in their siding… my poor old school bell came down on my house…
I hope the bell is ok, it would be sad to lose it!
I guess it was a good thing I didn’t buy a bunch of flowers this year after all… 😉🤪
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Oh, I’m so sorry for the destruction and mess the storm made to your garden. A lot of work gone in a short time. I hope some of it will redeem itself. The weather is certainly becoming more wacky each year. Good luck.
Sure sorry that you took such a direct hit. It sure hasn’t been a good year for gardens……..but we rise again with new seeds in our hands ‘cause we are ‘farmers’, and we don’t give up. But we do sympathize! Hugs, my friend!
So sorry about your garden. Hope you do get some produce from your raspberries and tomatoes. Our tomatoes doing well, but only have a few raspberry bushes. I might get two a day to put on my breakfast !!!!! If I’m lucky. Just pre ordered new Longmire book. Out here Sept 19.
So sad. All that work!! Glad it wasn’t any worse. No body hurt.
that dang old Mother Nature has been unkind to so many this year! I have a school bell on an old telephone pole in front of my house, hope yours is OK!