Hailstorm -- Oak Tree Day, 2nd of Flowering, Year 225

[neotoma]

My town just had a hailstorm, with hailstones the size of glass marbles -- between 1 and 2 cm in diameter.

That's pretty weird -- we don't get hail as a rule. I hope we're not in for a summer of weird weather...

Comments

[madripoor_rose]

Ugh. No major damage I hope? To any garden stuff you had out, hail that size can flatten you!

[neotoma]

My Truly Tiny Bananas are pretty shredded in the leaves, but I'm hopeful they'll just grow new ones. Everything else looks okay.

[madripoor_rose]

Nods. As long as the main stem isn't broken, a lot of things recover from leaf damage.

[temve]

Yep, I was certainly glad that only minutes before it started pelting down, I had decided to run indoors on the treadmill since it was so muggy outside... and I'd just rigged the hanging mechanism for our flower and tomato baskets, and am happy to report that both the ragging and the plants survived intact and our balcony is the only one looking alive yet :)

Cars seem to have taken it in their stride, at least the Audi that I watched get hammered outside the gym looked just fine afterwards...

[neotoma]

It usually takes bigger hailstones to damage cars, but I'm glad your balcony plants are okay.

[chomiji]

The power's been fluctuating too. I was in the Old Town Ace, getting some more supplies for my Science March sign, and the power died. I couldn't buy my stuff because the register there won't even open with the power off.

:-(

[neotoma]

I haven't had any power fluctuation, but since I think I'm on the same block/grid as the Metro station, I generally don't lose it for more than an hour or so.

Yeah, that's a problem, though I suppose the cases where people want to buy stuff during a power outage are few and far enough between that the company figured it was better to have that as a security feature.

Yes...

[ysabetwordsmith]

We got hail here too, but it was only pea size and stopped quickly. Of course, as soon as the sky started throwing rocks, I started hollering at it to quit that, so this may have helped.

[lilacsigil]

I hope your plants are okay!

[neotoma]

Mostly. The bananas have shredded leaves, but I hope they'll recover.

[st_aurafina]

Holy crap, that's scary hail.

[neotoma]

It was. Especially because it happened very quickly. One moment I'm listening to kids playing outside, the next I'm listening to 'clunks' as it hit my window. Fortunately, the buildings are pretty close together, so the kids were able to get inside quickly.