[AT] Now NC twisters: was Mina problem

Tue Apr 19 16:24:47 PDT 2011

On April 7th we had a freak Thunderstorm here in the Santa Clara Valley of
California. Normally we rarely get thunderstorms and we only get hail once
in a while. During that day, at two of the ranches I farm about half a mile
apart (but not at the other two ranches, one of which was less than three
miles away as the crow flies) we received 5 separate periods of hail. In
total about an inch of hail fell as part of the total 1.2" of precipitation
during the 5 hour time period.
     Now I know what you people in the midwest and Southeast are thinking -
"that hardly counts as precipitation let alone hail!" But remember this is
coastal Central California where we "almost never" get hail and certainly
not in April! So, the problem is that the hail damaged my Spinach, Miners
Lettuce, Baby Lettuce and various other Baby Greens crops from bruising and
it also knocked off many of the fruit tree blossoms - all of these being
major crops for me and in the types of local crops that are grown. So the
result ended up being a loss well over $10,000 for my farm, all because of
less than an hour of hail falling during a part of one day from a small
Thunderstorm. And as noted by others in this thread, these types of storms
are usually ones that only "touch down" in certain spots deemingly for
unclear reasons....
     So there is my "hail tale of woe" and to recover a little bit from it,
we ran a Farmers Market "Hail Spring Sale" on the weekend to try to recover
a little from this.....

         Grant Brians
         Hollister,California

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Glad to hear you came through it OK. Hope the hail damage wasn't too bad,
unless you needed a new roof. :o)

Phil

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From: "Herbert Metz" <metz-h.b at mindspring.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Subject: Re: [AT] Now NC twisters:  was   Mina problem
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:47:32 -0400

Phil; appreciate your thinking of us.  Twice this past couple months we
have had serious hail/tornado  warnings; approx a month ago we had some
rain, then half inch dia spongy hail that covered approx 40& of the ground,
and only rain this past time.  Both times we squeezed everything into the
garage or shed.  Both times there have been some hail damage and last time
a tornado was sighted southwest of us approx fifteen miles, but not
knowledgeable about the outcome.  So, we have been very fortunate.
Regards, Herb

> [Original Message]
> From: <pga2 at BasicISP.net>
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Date: 4/19/2011 9:21:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Now NC twisters:  was   Mina problem
>
> Anybody heard from Herb Metz near Atlanta? I got an email from my son,
who also lives in Cumming, and he said just rain, but tornadoes can be very
"selective" about where they strike.
>
> Phil
>
> --- farmallsupera at earthlink.net wrote:
>
> From: Al Jones <farmallsupera at earthlink.net>
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Subject: Re: [AT] Now NC twisters:  was   Mina problem
> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:54:16 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
>
> All ok here.  We had tornados north and south of us, Camp Lejeune (and
that's La-JOON to me, I don't care what anybody says!) had some severe
damage at a base housing facility.  Also some severe damage around
Jacksonville.  Didn't even rain here enough to wet the ground.  I was
however coming back from the Va. Cubfest in Randolph VA and came into
Raleigh about the time it got hit.  I think I missed being in a tornado's
path by about 5 miles.  Hardest rain I have ever seen in my life.  Coming
on down I-40 I saw another area where a tornado had just been through.
Lots of broken trees and a tractor trailer on its side.
>
> Al
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: David Bruce <davidbruce at yadtel.net>
> >Sent: Apr 18, 2011 2:37 PM
> >To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> >Subject: Re: [AT] Now NC twisters:  was   Mina problem
> >
> >As I'm just west of Spencer his description covers me as well.  No
> >problems here other than a very few toppled trees - glad I had the
> >electric co-op remove a dead oak along the right of way a month ago.
> >But they are glad they did it also.
> >
> >David
> >NW NC
> >
> >
> >
> >On 4/18/2011 9:13 AM, Spencer Yost wrote:
> >> This outbreak is the most severe in nearly 30 years.   A lot of
families in shelters over the last few nights.  As for me and the ATIS
servers; the storms hadn't gotten fired up good when they came thru NW N.C.
So things were fine here except just a few trees were down and we got 1.4"
rain in about 15 minutes.
> >>
> >> Spencer
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >> On Apr 18, 2011, at 8:41, Bob McNitt<nysports at frontiernet.net>  wrote:
> >>
> >>> Charlie - It certainly looks like he's had his add-book hacked. Boy,
> >>> North Carolina really got pounded by twisters. I hope no one on this
> >>> list was affected, directly or indirectly.
> >>>
> >>> Bob in CNY
> >>
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