Jeff Walther wrote:
So who did and didn't get hail tonight (3/25/2005) and approximately where
are you located?


We had about 4-5 minutes of hail, with some up to 2 or 2 1/2 inches!
Came through the living room window glass but was stopped by the drapes.

We're in a duplex near 183 & Lamar/I-35 off Georgian.

Because of the dogs and numerous large hackberrys, my garden is only a 2
foot wide flowerbed along the front and end of the duplex. It shredded
most of my lillies, but a wild (or naturalised) gladiola from East Texas
mostly got by ok. The lemon grass wasn't damaged, nor the cilantro, sage
or oregano, not enough to set back much anyway. Tomatos another story.
My one large Brandywine was shredded, it's stalk torn in half and only
two leaves remining, those torn. One smaller Brandywine and two grape
cluster tomato plants were pounded totally to death - no trace remains.
Oddly, one small tomato plant - another grape cluster I believe, wasn't
touched at all. Most of my large potted plants survived, with minor
damage, as they are directly under the trees, so the hail may have had
some volocity broken on way down.

I've only experienced this bad of a hailstorm once in over 20 years here
in Austin.

But someone in Travis or the surrounding area will get hammered in any
goven year. I've pulled all my plants under cover and covered garden
plants with big plastic pots with rocks on top plenty of times without
any of the prophesied hall taking place. This time I didn't even know it
had clouded over until just before the hail started, and was totally
caught by surprise. I guess life happens.

Rick Shannon