Battered, Bruised and Broken but not Destroyed!

RonnyWil · May 24, 2010

First came the rain, then the hail and last but not least, the wind. We had a thunderstorm today and the most hail we've had in years. It was mostly pea size but there was some dime and even a few quarter sized pieces. It lasted 15 to 20 minutes and melted as fast as expected with the rain pouring down. There were a few limbs broken, there were a few leaves destroyed and there are some bruised stems but for the most part, the 48 tomato plants, ranging in size from 18 to 36 inches, are intact. The 100+ plants still in cups on the shade table had just a little damage.

My 12" sweet corn is laying down and so are a bunch of the peppers but I hope sunshine tomorrow will help straighten them out. The cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli has some holes in the leaves as does the hops but they are okay. I'm surprised that very few apples, pears and peaches fell because the wind was really blowing.

We're expecting a chance of these pop-up showers all week but hopefully today's will be worst we'll have to endure.

Timmah! · May 24, 2010

The fun for us was a couple days ago when we had a couple tornado warnings as the front came through about 21:00. No touchdowns, thankfully, just hail, heavy rain, winds & a bunch of wall & funnel clouds in the area:

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lmk/?n=wall_cloud_palooza

dustdevil · May 25, 2010

You might be able to stand the corn up by hand if the plants tilted in loose soil due to high wind.

b54red · May 25, 2010

Sorry to hear of your misfortune. That hail can be very destructive. Around twenty years ago we had a huge hail storm during the early spring and it totally destroyed our garden and fruit trees. I never want to see that stuff again.

May 24, 2010	#1
RonnyWil Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Collierville TN Posts: 106	Battered, Bruised and Broken but not Destroyed! First came the rain, then the hail and last but not least, the wind. We had a thunderstorm today and the most hail we've had in years. It was mostly pea size but there was some dime and even a few quarter sized pieces. It lasted 15 to 20 minutes and melted as fast as expected with the rain pouring down. There were a few limbs broken, there were a few leaves destroyed and there are some bruised stems but for the most part, the 48 tomato plants, ranging in size from 18 to 36 inches, are intact. The 100+ plants still in cups on the shade table had just a little damage. My 12" sweet corn is laying down and so are a bunch of the peppers but I hope sunshine tomorrow will help straighten them out. The cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli has some holes in the leaves as does the hops but they are okay. I'm surprised that very few apples, pears and peaches fell because the wind was really blowing. We're expecting a chance of these pop-up showers all week but hopefully today's will be worst we'll have to endure. __________________ I'm two days older than dirt and I like to play in it.

May 24, 2010	#2
Timmah! Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Elizabethtown, Kentucky 6a Posts: 754	The fun for us was a couple days ago when we had a couple tornado warnings as the front came through about 21:00. No touchdowns, thankfully, just hail, heavy rain, winds & a bunch of wall & funnel clouds in the area: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lmk/?n=wall_cloud_palooza

May 25, 2010	#3
dustdevil Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: WI, USA Zone4 Posts: 1,887	You might be able to stand the corn up by hand if the plants tilted in loose soil due to high wind.

May 25, 2010	#4
b54red Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Alabama Posts: 7,068	Sorry to hear of your misfortune. That hail can be very destructive. Around twenty years ago we had a huge hail storm during the early spring and it totally destroyed our garden and fruit trees. I never want to see that stuff again.