A big storm blew through last night that spit out hail the size of golfballs and bigger. We suffered quite a bit of damage. Hail damage on both cars, a broken windshield on the van, broken siding on the house, a shattered bulb on the backside of the house, pieces of shingles laying around (who knows whats been done to the roof, we haven't gone up yet).... and a demolished garden. I think the only thing that may come out of the garden now will be onions, and possibly corn. I'm quite shocked that the corn stalks are still standing! There are no leaves left on our pepper plants, tho, and few on the tomato plants. From what I saw last night, the spaghetti squash was all broken up. The vine that carried the lone growing squash had been detatched, and the squash had dents and chips taken out of it. Such a sad sight. The scenery last night looked like mazto ball soup with lots of herbs. Biju couldn't get to sleep last night because he kept thinking about deductables and how we're going to fix everything. He said he'll probably be the guy falling asleep at work today, his second day back. At least he's off again tomorrow so he can take the boys and I to our hair appointments, since I think it'd be illegal for me to drive the van (I need to look at the van to see where the shatter marks are).
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The boys and I just went outside to take some more pictures. We visited our neighbors a couple houses down who were already busy cleaning up the fallen leaves. Their son was over helping and he'd already gone onto their roof. He says their roof is done for.
Here are pics from last night and this morning:
Out the front door during the hailstorm; Out the back door
The broken light; the broken windshield
As damaging as it was, it was still pretty to look at
The patch with what used to be our green beans and spaghetti squash plants
Tomato plants; Eggplant plants
Pepper plants; Corn stalks
Hail dents in the soil
The demolished zucchini plants; A close up of a zuke - looks like the ice got hungry!
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