8-06-04
Hailstorm on the Farm
Patti writes:
We had a horrendous thunder/lightening/rain/hail storm come through
last night.
There was 1 1/2" in the rain gauge today, which is
almost unheard of. Ditches are everywhere.
The hail was
still in piles this morning, even after the sprinkler ran through twice
during the night
to wash it into the ground! So much for my
beautiful flowers. We are so grateful that they started here
instead of at Kintschi's like they usually do and that they
harvested most the wheat here at home
because the storm passed a swath
through right over the farm. Kintschi's and Holznagel places are
fine;
they just got rain. Mike thinks we probably lost around a
third of the barley here at the farm.