We had a heck of a storm pass through here today! Papa called from work right as it was starting to tell us about it. He had a hail stone over an inch long in one hand and the phone in the other!! We measured one and it was 3 cms!! Man did it ever rain!! It was loud too!! Hail on a tin roof! Papa said one of his bosses car got dented by the hail!! Craziness!! We have a small branch on the driveway and leaves flew everywhere, but as far as I know that is the only damage we suffered.
A neat picture of water falling off the roof.
The hail was BOUNCING on the trampoline!! And for some odd reason it only stuck on one side.
The hail that came off the roof!
A peice of hail I found on the back porch! Excuse the dirty feet.. I rarely wear socks ;)
Norma Jean getting a little bit of shelter under the end of the roof. Both the cows were there but one of them touched the hot wire and then only Norma Jean was there!! Haha!
Hail on the bare ground in front of the laying hens winter house. There was a pen there all winter.
The water rushing off down the driveway!
The farm actually did quite well with the storm. Chickens huddled under trees and shelters. Cows fought for the best spot behind the house. Poor Star, the calf, got left out in it as I`d moved her this morning into the middle of an area with no good rain shelter, but she was grazing just minutes after it quit. The only animals that did not do well were the new piglets. Both older momma`s did just fine with their litters but the little gilt was in the middle of moving hers when the storm hit and 4 of them ended up at the neighbors in the bush and I had to go rescue them and put them by the new nest. I got a couple of piglet snuggles in exchange :) Last I saw the gilt she still had piglets in 3 different places but close together and was still trying to make a nest instead of laying down, like the other two, to keep her babies warm. She did lose one last night that we saw yesterday was not looking good. We think she may have lay on it as new pig mothers sometimes do.
