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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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Crazy, golfball-sized hail down here too, 51st & Western-ish.  I had a bad feeling about going to the Point 83 ride tonight.  I guess my gut was right, I'm really glad I wasn't out riding around drunk in that crap.
that was fun.
My friend and I were biking up Damen from Wicker Park to Ravenswood, attempting to follow a break in the storm that we saw. It worked alright for a while, we managed to avoid rain but felt like moving lightning rods. We ended up stranded only 4 blocks from my apartment, taking cover under a huge pine tree. We were both really glad to have our helmets on when the hale started to come down...
Went on the point 83 ride and we were just about to leave Ethyl's and the hail started coming down. My ride home was surreal never saw so many leaves, branches down. Pulverized.

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.

Thats about the biggest one I got up in lincoln square.  

Serge Lubomudrov said:

One had to wear a helmet to go outside:

I was watching as the storm danced around River North. You can see the front in the picture, along with some of the first lightning.

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.

Thankfully it didn't hit the far south.

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...
My tomato plants toughed it out admirably, lost the top of one of the eight, but the other seven seemed mainly unscathed this morning- even the few first blossoms on them were intact. I got lucky!

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