This image is from Friday June 28 and looks deceptively lovely. It is an image of the end of one of worst storms we have ever had in my immediate area. We had looked at the radar and there was a very small rain cell visible so we decided to ride our bikes to dinner and then by the time we finished eating it would be out of the area. We were very wrong. We were stuck at the restaurant for 2 hours. The storm grew in size and sat over my town and dumped 6.9 inches of rain at my house and collapsed a building in town and caused A LOT of tree damage among other damage. They have decided it was straight line winds of at least 80MPH. We are still cleaning up limb damage on our property.
6.9" of rain is a lot of water and pushed by 80mph winds that can do a lot of damage! I can imagine the tree damage having had a storm like that, but less rain a year or so ago. Glad your house was Ok
ReplyDeleteThanks much Jim, yes it could have been worse. Still cleaning up the tree debris though. It will be interesting to see how and if the trees recover.
DeleteOur trees have recovered quite well from wind/rain damage over the years. Unfortunately it doesn't happen overnight...
ReplyDeleteGood to know that it eventually happens. I'm sure the Oak will take a while.
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