Rain/Hail/Tornado In Our Little Valley

The weather really got with the program yesterday afternoon.  The first thing that hit was heavy rains, thunder and wind.  Any other time, the rain would be more than welcome since we have been in a drought for quite some time.  But yesterday, rain was not a good thing.  My husband has a large field of hay cut, just waiting to dry enough for baling.  I guess it doesn’t look like that is going to happen in the near future which means the value drops drastically.

 

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Shortly after the rains came hail.  It only last a short time but it was enough time to do some pretty good damage.  My husband has another large field of alfalfa that hadn’t been cut and the hail laid a lot of it down.  We were in trouble no matter what the weather did.  It played havoc with are personal garden, too.  Shredding corning stalk leaves, ripping holes in pea and bean leaves and even some of the peas and beans were damaged.  Our carrots, beets and potatoes were hit hard too but luckily they are a root vegetable so it didn’t damage them.  Our trees also shed a few leaves through the process.
 

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During all this happening, there was a sighting of a tornado that briefly touched down. I personally did not see the tornado so I retrieved the following information from the internet.  The first one is from…eastidahonews.com, the second one from… localnews8.com and the third one was from… 590kid.com.