The Storms

You would not believe the storms that went through here on Thursday afternoon and evening. The wind blew with gusts up to 50 miles an hour and 4.2 inches of rain fell in a very short period of time. Our power went out sometime during the first of three hail storms, and has been out ever since.

The really amazing part is. We never lose our electricity. In fact a few years ago when Hubby insisted we purchase a generator, I scoffed at the idea. We have, however used the generator a few times and had lights when no one else has.

Like right now.

We watched with horror as the hail fell and the peach tree that is full of beautiful blushing peaches seemed to bend with the elements. We still don’t know the full extent of the damage and probably won’t until tomorrow.

Honestly this has been one of the wettest, stormiest summers I can recall since I was a teenage on Cape Cod and it rained literally every day, thus killing the tourist business for the entire summer.

Lest you think I am making too much of this I need to tell you that many roads here have been washed away, and I think it will take a lot of time, work and money to get the roads back into passable shape.

So what is forecast for the next week? If you guessed thunderstorms, lightening and lots of rain, then you would be correct.

I was out in my garden today before the storms started and noted that my summer squash and zucchini plants all have root rot from the rain. I may get a few more vegetables off of the vines before they completely die, but it will not be long. I fear the cucumbers are a loss.

Ah, Mother Nature is a fierce woman to deal with! After all, “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”!

**Update**

Here are a few pictures just taken outside in our orchard.

This is our MacIntosh tree. It probably sustained the greatest loss of fruit.

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See all the little apples on the ground?

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And below is our beautiful peach tree. I couldn’t see any breaks, as we have it heavily supported, and the loss of fruit is low. I just hope that once the fruit ripens and we can take the weight off the branches that it will spring back to life.

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8 thoughts on “The Storms”

  1. Hi Mom,

    Wow, sounds like you had really bad storms there! They were not quite so significant for me. So glad that it is Friday! Just wish M and I were both not going away next week. He leaves Sunday for a business trip in Chicago (and doesn’t get home until late Friday night). I leave Monday morning for Houston, and will be home Thursday night!

    Hope you have a good day, and not such a stormy one!

    Love you,

    Mandy 🙂

  2. We had wild weather here too yesterday. The thunder was LOUD! I am glad we had good weather when we were on vacation.
    I hope the fruit is okay! Love YOU, Mel

  3. Oh you must be sO sad… and here, I was ENJOYING every minute of the stuff God sent here. WE had the MOST incredible skies from about 4pm – 7:30 last night! EVERY direction you looked was just absolute BREATHTAKING beauty! When I was driving home from Luz’s I swore God was trying to KILL me because I could NOT keep my mind on the road – I kept trying to look around and WATCH these skies!!! And here that was the same weather pattern that was wreaking havoc up at your house… Isn’t that something? I am so sorry for your fruit trees though … I know they need sO much pampering – even without nature’s disasters… I hope the peach tree DOES pop back!

  4. oh…I’m so sorry about the storms and the hail. Truly hope the trees survive and the fruit on the peach tree is ok. We are aways wishing for rain here, but not like that. Those were terrible storms. We know all about hail and the damage it can do. Hope your roof is ok…and your cars.

  5. I’m a friend of Janet’s and I’m here visiting just a few miles from you for the month (same town). That storm sure was something. Thankfully my folks’ house just had a very wet basement and a one-hour power failure. Looking at the whitwater river flowing through their backyard last night and at the major damage just down the road it could have been a LOT worse! Did you see the picture of that poor house that nearly washed away?

  6. Those east coast storms can be really awful. I remember from living in upstate NY. Were any of the apples ripe enough to take them up and make an apple pie with extra sugar??? Well I am sorry for your loss…of fruit that is.

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