I must say, as nice as the showers were Friday evening, the quick moving storm that hit Sunday afternoon was not. The rain had just started when the power went out.
When I was on the phone reporting the outage, it started hailing.
I mean it really hailed for quite some time. The biggest ones were about 2 1/2 or 3 inches.
I lost two windows. Thankfully, it’s just the storm windows.
My super industrial can’t be damaged 1970s steel siding has a lot of dents in it. We’ll have to get the insurance people out here to see about roof damage.
Along with the windows on the north being broken and the dents in the siding, there’s all kinds of grass plastered on the north also.
Thankfully, I had my car in the garage, but the poor truck has some dents. That just makes it a real farm truck.
There’s tree debris all over every side of the house and my deck.
from the pine trees on the north edge–they are blown all the way south into my driveway
the crab apple blossoms were blown north onto the deck and side of the house
The goats were, thankfully, in the barnyard when it hit. They all were inside right away.
LilyAnn peeking out the door right after the storm passed.
a pile of kids (with Pretzel, Heidi, and Ostara in the bunk)
another pile of kids
After the storm, it took me a while to find Ms. Goose. I was worried as big as that hail was, but she was on her nest in the greenhouse.
She’s under the bench in the back
Three generations hanging together–Astra, Perdita, and Moxie
Mostly I’m just grateful. Everyone is fine.
Everyone was out playing after the storm passed. Even Bun Bun was safe!
I was a bit worried about going into the night without a light for my birds, but I dug out the camp lantern.
Luckily, I was just getting that set up when the power came back on. But I’m really ready to be done with hail.
Teresa
Eden Hills 