[AT] Now NC twisters: was Mina problem

Tue Apr 19 19:23:33 PDT 2011

Hail has ruined many crops. Tobacco farmers in particular have to worry 
about it.

John

----- 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 7:24 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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