[AT] Now NC twisters: was Mina problem

[charlie hill]

Al,  I worked a hail loss in Green County years ago.   The tobacco was just 
past lay by size ( a little over knee high ) and the guy had a corn patch 
next to the tobacco.  The corn was about shoulder high.
When we got there we couldn't find enough of the tobacco to even get a leaf 
count.  Even the stalks were shredded.  The corn looked like it had been cut 
down with a cycle bar cutter.  It was cut off clean with the ground and all 
laying across the rows at about a 45 deg angle with the leaves shredded. 
The vinyl siding on the man's house had holes in it.  The metal fascia on 
his eaves looked like some kids had been on them with a ball peen hammer. 
The windows were beat out of his cars and the metal was all beat up.  The 
windows  on the up wind side of the house were beat out.  Down the road 
about 1 mile a 15 or so year old stand of pine trees were beat down to 
nothing but the trunks and the top of them were broken out.   The man said 
during the peak of the storm, with the wind roaring and the hail beating 
down like crazy he could hear, above the other noise,  a herd of beef cows 
in a pasture right across the road from the pine trees hollering from the 
pain of being beat by the hail.   I've never seen anything just like it. 
Even asphalt shingles on the roof were broken.  We were stumped at how to 
adjust the mans tobacco loss.  We needed a leaf count and couldn't find a 
stalk anywhere intact enough to get one.  The man finally told us he had a 
field about 3 miles down the road that was set out the day before this 
field.   It didn't get hit.  We went over there and took our leaf count from 
that field and called it close enough.   Near the field where we got the 
leaf count 3 big pecan trees were blown over but there was no hail damage.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Al Jones
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 10:03 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Now NC twisters: was Mina problem

Indeed, hail is a "nightmare scenario" on tobacco in eastern NC.  It'll 
shred those big 'ol leaves!

With the storms Saturday, we had no measurable rain.  Beginning to really 
need a shower on the wheat.

Al

-----Original Message-----
>From: Dean Vinson <dean at vinsonfarm.net>
>Sent: Apr 19, 2011 7:59 PM
>To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group' <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Subject: Re: [AT] Now NC twisters:  was   Mina problem
>
>Grant, I'm very sorry to hear of the crop damage you suffered--that must be
>terribly frustrating.
>
>And, speaking as a more-or-less lifetime resident of the Midwest, an inch 
>of
>hail is serious business wherever it falls!
>
>Hope your spring sale was productive--and if nothing else, good on you for
>making the best of a tough situation.
>
>Dean Vinson
>Dayton, Ohio
>www.vinsonfarm.net
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Grant Brians
>Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 7:25 PM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>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
>
>
>
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