Posted on 07/21/2008 11:15:18 AM PDT by maine-iac7
PATTEN, Maine - A "Wizard of Oz"-type storm Saturday produced a "wall of hail" so heavy it pounded pumpkins into mush and a wind so fierce it lifted a dog and two pigs into the air and peeled off a roof on Happy Corner Road, residents said Sunday. No one was injured.
The storm, which brought...
(Excerpt) Read more at bangornews.com ...
Pigs are flying...
Now com’on, wouldn’t you like to live on Happy Corner Road?
Pigs are flying...
Hillary for President!!!
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99 cent per gallon gas!!!
I grew up on a farm built by my great grandfather in 1846. In the 'cook room chamber' as the attic space over the 'cook room' was called, in amongst the trunks and other attic stuffs, was a glass case containing a stuffed tiny piglet - with two heads. Two perfectly shaped heads. It fascinated me to pieces.
It had been born on the farm and the mother pig had suffocated it - so they had him (her?) stuffed.
Help yourself to image.
Interesting story about the 2 headed pig.
It IS a news story, straight out of today's paper, front page above the fold, and a heckava more up to date news than many, many, thread posted as “news” - some months old...many multiple times.
Just curious to know, as how's a person supposed to know how the heck to post something...When is a news story in the same day paper, not a news story?
When it doesn't “bleed”? - but not if it's is a funny story that might bring a smile and a bit of levity into the gloominess of 97% of the gloomy news?
Here I had thought conservatives liked to smile too
18” of hail, according to the article I read. It’s amazing that anything is left standing.
That’s happened to me too. Strange gods these mods.
p.s.
Great post :o)
Really? Gosh, wonder what them there red, round things I've been picking off my tomato plants for the last week are???
There are also lots of folks in Maine smart enough to get a big jump on the growing season with movable greenhouse hoops - like this guy up even further north than I am - grows veggies year 'round at his "Four Season Farm."
http://www.fourseasonfarm.com/main/harvest/harvest.html
There's also the smaller version of the greenhouse - the French cloche - either as row covers or individual plant covers.
I've been getting veggies from local farm-share growers for over a month now that are way ahead of my garden veggies -
But then, what do I know...
Oh, well, I know that one hell*va big blow - smushed some of my plants, and I didn't get the hail....It's the weather being pushed up here by the tropical storms - everyone who might have been out on the ocean up the whole coast was warned to get to shore right quick...
I talk that way cuz I'm a dumb Mainiac. ;o)
Ah ya...you flat landers all talk a like
PS thanks for the link...
I’ve been in a similar freak hailstorm in June, south of you. It isn’t fun. Besides damage to cars, roofs and siding, the stripping of all of the trees of their leaves, and having to deal the remainder of the summer without their cooling effects was a mini-tragedy. Over the next days as we were raking the green leaves, which seemed so surreal, I realized that there were no birds around anymore. That was a real sadness, because I enjoy them so. A week later, still raking mind you, we found a hailstone about the size of a tennis ball, still in tact. It was about 6” into the soil, and had obviously been insulated by the dense cover of leaves. We’ll never forget the yellow color of the sky that afternoon. Anyone in tornado country has my full sympathies.
Not fun - reminds me of the Ice Storm of ‘98 . I cried for those exploding trees - sounding like the middle of a battlefield for 3 long days and nights - and the devastation!
They called it “The Hundred Year Ice Storm” - the last one having happened 100 years previously...so I have hopes never to see one again.
Those hail stones you speak of can kill people - and they sure leave a lot of smashed up cars behind.
remember one when I was little - a long time ago ;o) - the a hail storm picked up the roof of my uncles barn and set in a field several hundred feet away -
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