Golf-ball sized hail and a huge amount of water at the same time, lasting ~15 minutes.
It was pretty much deafening, and then it got louder.
I have no idea what it's going to look like when things die down. I'd imagine that anyone with plants outside has some work ahead of them, at the least. No concept of what it must have been like to be caught on a bike in this . . .
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All of the screens on my south-facing windows have big holes torn in them from the hail.
My container garden looks bedraggled and beaten, but I think the tomato plants and lettuce will be ok. My cucumber seedling (which was spindly to begin with) was torn to pieces. No cucumbers in my garden this year.
I think we got lucky up here in A'ville.
I watched it from my (covered) porch steps. The lightning strikes were quite a spectacle. Heavy rain flooded our garden with the roof run-off, as it is designed to do. Our French drain holds up very well to this type of storms. I did not see any hail, but we got easily 1+ inch of rain in 15 minutes.
This morning there appears to be very little damage to our plants. A little leaf damage to the pole beans and the hostas, but that is about it.
I was riding up Halsted when the lighting started with a few friends. I kept saying, "I can get to Addison and I'll get on the train."
Wrong.
At Diversy we almost took shelter in the Walgreen's, because the lightning was so bad. Instead we went up to Wellington to a friends house and got in just when the hail started. 45 minutes later, I was back on the road, but I'd rather not ride in lightning like that again.
Damage assessment this AM. Not bad at all. All herbs and tomato plants survived.
Yay!
in it to win it said:
Ugh. My poor plants...
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