Re: Season Ender Oregon Update

Brett sorry to here this,now you know how I felt last weekend,If the dents
ain't to big and it didn't totally tear your leaves off you'll recover mine
look a lot better this week.Jerry
----- Original Message -----
From: <Orion910@aol.com>
To: <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 4:53 PM
Subject: Season Ender Oregon Update


> In my 27 years of living I have never seen a true thunderstorm here in
this
> area.  Last night it happened.  It started off as a few lightning strikes,
no
> prob, I can deal, then came the rain.  In the first wave we received 1.2
> inches in 20 minutes.  Lightning and wind not too bad, I was digging moats
> around the prospects to keep the water from going underneath the fruit
when
> my hair stood up on end and lightning struck anly a tenth of a mile away
in
> the test patch.  Then came a nasty gust of wind followed by the biggest
hail
> I have ever seen in real life.  I tried to save all the fruit but I
couldn't,
> The shade structures blew off and that was it.  I couldn't see in the dark
> and I couldn't stay in the patch with lighting hitting within 500 feet of
me,
> I was un-nerved and had to give up, I couldn't save them.
> This morning I was up at dawn to see what was left, and it wasn't a
> nightmare.  I videotaped the whole event up to the point when it became
> obvious this wasn't just a cool storm, and now all leaves are severely
> damaged, all fruit are cratered and bruised and 1999 is over.  The stats
are
> on the storm top gust 53 MPH, 2.8 inches of rain in less than one hour,
half
> inch hail for roughly 5 minutes, and over 100 lightning strikes within one
> mile of my home according to the local storm reporting station.
> My largest fruit was on the 801.5 stelts at an estimated 276 pounds for
the
> record books.  All but about 5% of my vines were terminated and buried, so
> there is littel hope for a reprieve.
> Good luck to the rest of you out there, and I'll get the hazelnuts ready.
> Whats everyone planting in 2000?
> Brett  The Pumpkinguru  Hester
>
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