I LOVE thunderstorms–except when i am caught out in them with no shelter and a dog, as happened last week, haven’t run like that for years!!!!!!!!…….–or when they are accompanied as they were last night by golf ball sized hail, last 3 hours and destroy my garden!
The noise was horrendous—it sounded as if an angry mob was throwing millions of stones on the house!!!!!!!!!!!
So much for my 6 foot cherry tomato plants. And the 10 foot sunflower……..
Fortunately, though the windows were being pelted on all sides of the house, we had NO breakage, no damage to the car and no power outages. The crabapple and apple trees were partially stripped at the tops, my ferns, tomatoes, sunflowers and bleeding heart bush are shredded, there’s still hail on the ground and it was only 9C this morning. DogFaced Girl was quite happy this morning to be out–she thought the temperature was just right–she’s a Snow Dog at heart! Only dog too i’ve ever known who doesn’t freak at thunderstorms and try to cram herself under the bed!
I was also very very VERY thankful i hadn’t left the silk out overnight on the line–bought a whack of it yesterday and sometimes leave it out if i know it’s going to rain. I’d have had a lot of shreddy rags!
I will never complain about heavy RAIN again—the alternative is just too scarey!
More photos on the old “Dangerous Mouth of the Rose” blog…..
Karin
August 13, 2012 at 9:12 am
Slashing by hail would be a new technique though wouldn’t it!
Kit Lang
August 13, 2012 at 9:16 am
That hail is INSANE! I’ve never seen hail like that and I grew up in Sudbury (where it was the usual to have 4 or 5 feet of snow over the winter season which lasted from September to June some years – lol).
I’m glad the worst damage was to your garden, although I’m sorry about the damage to your garden – at least none of your people or vehicles or property got hurt!
Chimo
August 13, 2012 at 9:31 am
Dyeing with HAIL? I’ve heard of snow dyeing, ice dyeing, so why not? Hail dyeing? Get that article in to QA, now.
Glad that nothing truly precious was damaged – what a storm.
Chimo,
Jennifer
arlee
August 13, 2012 at 9:38 am
a “slash and dye” technique
Distress and dye all in one op? NARF
marginmirror
August 13, 2012 at 2:27 pm
Oh. My. Goodness! Glad you and DFG and GM are fine and no house/car damage. Poor plants, though!
Terri at Time To Be Inspired
August 14, 2012 at 12:14 am
Talk about luck of the draw – parts of the city pelted and some of us didn’t get a speck of hail. Sorry about your garden. I’ve had years of heartbreak when the hail shreds the garden. I know that in Calgary it will take till the end of the growing season for things to look good, just before they freeze! Good luck.
arlee
August 14, 2012 at 7:27 am
Gee thanks Terri
Yeah, that’s pretty much what i figured–but maybe with the season being so unusual, i’ll get *something* back..besides turnips and onions….
Terri at Time To Be Inspired
August 14, 2012 at 8:55 am
At least with the internet you can search “turnip and onions” and come up with all the recipes in the world!
arlee
August 14, 2012 at 1:46 pm
good thing we have peasant tastes too
Karen Turner
August 14, 2012 at 12:16 pm
yikes!!
MA
August 21, 2012 at 4:32 pm
Oh my – that’s positively scary! So sorry about the damage to the garden, but very happy that you and the DFG got to safety. Those hail stones would HURT!