[AT] Now NC twisters: was Mina problem

Tue Apr 19 18:14:54 PDT 2011

Grant
I know the frustration and loss you feel.  I had the best crop of oats 
evergrown on my farm last spring.  It was the first time I had done it all 
by myself without any help of supervision from my Dad.  I used chicken 
litter for fertilizer and planted with a no till drill.  I had invested huge 
sums of money in getting that land in decent shape to grow a decent crop.. 
Oats were 2 ft tall and almost starting to boot. Hail leveled the entire 
crop and drove it into the mud.  It made nothing.  It was not even good for 
pasture..  No crop insurance..  First time in my 45 years of farming I lost 
a crop to hail...  Now we have drought.  I turned the sheep in on the wheat 
this afternoon.  It might make 1/2 round bales per acre.  The sheep need the 
green forage, they have been on dry hay since Jan 1.

Mother Nature is a nasty old bitch.

Cecil in OKla

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Grant Brians" <sales at heirloom-organic.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 6:24 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Now NC twisters: was Mina problem

> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com]On Behalf Of
> pga2 at BasicISP.net
> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 8:18 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Now NC twisters: was Mina problem
>
>
> Glad to hear you came through it OK. Hope the hail damage wasn't too bad,
> unless you needed a new roof. :o)
>
> Phil
>
> --- metz-h.b at mindspring.com wrote:
>
> 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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