A very big storm!

The Holm-Hansen's experienced the wrath of nature last week. We've been experiencing lots of thunder storms lately. One was particularly violent - the heaviest rain I've ever seen, strong winds, hail. During worst of it, we stood under our underhang by the front door for a few minutes, and couldn't see more than 5-10 feet ahead of us. When the storm settled, we surveyed the damage. The back yard was fine...it was pretty well protected by trees. In the front yard, we had some small limbs and lots of leaves come off the tree, but not too bad. The side yard was another story....our peonies and rhubarb were snapped off at the base. The leaves of our hostas are full of holes from the hail. We lost lots of our raspberry and blackberry plants (sadly, just before the harvest!). Most concerning was the large tree that came down. One of our pine trees fell down...narrowly missing the back of the house and garage. It was a decent sized tree, big enough to have caused some harm, so we were grateful that it fell perfectly between the house and some other trees!