Hope1964

It's not enough that we only have 4 months of the year when we can GROW anything. Last night at 4 am it hailed for a half hour, stones the size of peas and quarters, and completely demolished my garden. That used to be lettuce, salad greens and corn in the first picture, begonias in the second, petunias in the third and geraniums in the fourth. I wish now I had taken a pic of the flowers yesterday - they were in full bloom and I was sitting on the deck admiring them









Luckily I was able to save the peppers and tomatoes I have in pots on the deck! They got enough protection up against the house covered with deck chairs. If you can see the little ironing board poking around the side there in the window that's open, that's what I used to cover my head with while I ran around dragging stuff to safety.



Some of the storm itself. The lightning was constant, there was no way we could sleep. This morning there are roads closed all over the place and people with flooding (link to news story Motorists stranded, basements flooded as severe thunderstorms roll through Edmonton )

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Shaggy

So basically the great white north was white again yesterday.

southern wife

I'm so sorry this happened!

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StatusQuo

Awww, that is depressing. And, ewwww, you had THAT much hail, it looks like freaking snow! *shudders*

Coffee Amore

That's a shame. I take it this is out of the ordinary for this time of the year.

Beautiful backyard though!

Maricha75

That was my thought too!

Glad you weren't hurt when you went out and moved things to safety, Hope!

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MattMatt

Oh, no! Your poor, beautiful garden!

Dollystanford

mother nature can be a right b*tch sometimes

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Shaggy

Get to homedepot and buy one new crops, you might get them grown before fall.
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Hope1964

Thanks guys. We are lucky it wasn't a lot worse - many people have basements completely flooded, cars submerged in their parking lots, really bad stuff. Our basement only has a little bit of water and some sand that got washed in through a crack.

On the bright side, this means MORE trips to the garden center

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kag123

Wow that is awful! If it makes you feel any better we are attempting to garden this year...and got 10 straight days of 110 degree weather (that's about 30 degrees above avg for us) and everything was scorched. We attempted to run sprinklers and it literally evaporated faster than it soaked into the ground. So we are right there with you.
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LadyFrogFlyAway

That s*cks, Hope. We had dime-sized hail about four days ago, but nothing that severe. It's not fun to look out the window in summer and see winter weather.

We had a severe summer hailstorm several years ago that shredded gardens and damaged everyone's cars.

golfergirl

We've had horrible plow winds, hail and a power outage that lasted 24-48 hours in some areas. It sucks!
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