My climatis had been 2 feet taller right before the hailstorm.
Our patio lighting just isn't the same!
The vines
are pretty beat up. I had been babying them along for several years and
were filling quite well in this area until the storm hit.
The spa cover is pretty badly dented and torn up.
This is the window well on the north side of the house behind the bushes...totally
shattered.
The tree in front of the house is almost completely stripped of its leaves.
Window well covers were all sold out by 9 AM the morning after the storm.
This window is on the south side.
These windows got the storms broken out and screens ripped. Notice the
painted sill got pretty well battered, not to mention the siding.
This tree is the best looking one left behind the garage...at least the
western half. The rooves were strewn with leaves and twigs and the turbines
got pretty beaten up.
The spa cover apparently leaked rain water and leaves...now if only it
had been "tea" leaves...
My roses got "pruned"...most will probably make it through this
without blooming this year.
Every piece of vinyl siding on the east side of the house looks like this.
My lovely rhododendron should make it, but it's about a third the size
it was before.
The ground is totally covered with leaves and twigs from the trees.
This is a pile of hail stones I found under the spirea bushes on the north
side of the house 24 hours after the storm. They still measure quarter-size.
Almost a third of the vines on the chimney are gone.
This is a sampling of the 7 barrels of stuff cleaned up off the front
lawn, driveway and patio. We still have to clean up the back yard.
Some of the patio furniture got shredded by the large hail...some reported
to be baseball-sized (3-in. diameter).
The vines and bushes were just chopped off by the hail storm that lasted
almost an hour.
I don't think my poinsettia is going to make it...this is the one I forced
to bloom last Christmas! I had put it outside to bush up again during
the summer.