Hail / heavy rains

[hedgehog]

Green crops lodged. Less green crops stayed up pretty fair.

Went out to check my cut hay. It’s not in swaths it is rolled up in twisted masses around the field. Scattered who knows where. So that will be fun. Goodbye fifty or so bales worth I guess. Glad I have an ancient, slow cutting haybine, so that I only had maybe 15 acres cut on that field. Lol

Get this. Seven bales rolled off the field into a slough. Eight bales were tipped on their side. Six by five bales. Some were rolled 200 yards. Only one got to the water where it is in the cattails ready for next years duck nesting I guess.

Now imagine being in that field at dusk having bales roll by you.

We lost a dozen sheep some years ago who were sheltering behind round bales which blew over

[sumdumguy]

Francis got hit hard last night. Some hail said to be baseball size demolished several thousand acre fields, buildings severely damaged.

[LEP]

We lost a dozen sheep some years ago who were sheltering behind round bales which blew over

Always my first thought after a bad hail storm is how the animals were impacted.

When I was about 13 years old we were haying with nothing but bale stooks to hide behind. I ended up with several bruises on my back from loonie sized hail. Can't imagine being out in a storm with bigger hail.