The storms on Thursday were even worse than Hubby and I could have imagined. When we woke this morning, we heard on the news that our area had been devastated by the torrential rain. We’d gotten 4.2 inches of rain in 35 minutes, so you can imagine the chaos this caused. Maybe you can’t. I certainly had never seen anything quite like this. I hope you will take a moment and watch this video of what the storms did to our community.
As we walked along the broken roads, with our neighbors and fellow towns-people, the smell of tar was everywhere. I could never in my wildest dreams have imagined this. Paved roads, twisted and broken like peanut brittle! There were trees standing there, but their roots were completely exposed and will need to be removed. Many homes will need to be gutted and repaired. I can’t even count the driveways that will need to be rebuilt, and how did we make out?
As you saw in Fridays post we had lost many pieces of fruit. However, when Hubby and I went out and started to carefully examine our crop we found that the 3 hail storms that went through had decimated the fruit that was still on the trees.
Oh, we’ll be able to make apple sauce, and we can make peach and plum jams, but there will be no premium fruit from out trees this year, and that has saddened us.
That’s okay. There is always next year.
holy cow! What is going on with this weather???
This was frightening to see – the power of nature can be cruel sometimes and you’ve captured the dramatic damage very well.
Sorry about the destroyed fruit in your garden too, but you’ve found a way to use it anyway – great!
How terrible ! especially when you sit there helpless and listen to the disaster ! Before I went to England we had severe overfloading in a part of Belgium, houses and fields under water … Here {in England) we had a terrible thunderstorm which destroyed some roofs. Fortunately nothing here. The world goes mad !
Oh my gosh … that’s awful… I can’t even imagine getting that much rain…
Unbelievable! So much damage, so sad about the fruit! Love YOU, Mel
I have NEVER seen roads destroyed like that before! That is CRAZY! Maribeth… I know you and hubby are very sad by the damage to your fruit … but if your HOME sustained no damage – and your driveway (which I would imagine is not in good shape)… you are SO blessed! You could have lost much more than fruit. For the fruit, there IS always next year! Thanks for sharing those pictures… your community is in my prayers.
That’s awful Maribeth. I hope the damage stops with this storm. I hate those dreadful storms. Take care
Unbelievable pictures! I can’t believe it rained that much in 1/2 hour. We have had some weird weather this summer! Glad that you are ok!