{"id":276,"date":"2010-05-13T06:40:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T11:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2010\/05\/13\/100513_hail\/"},"modified":"2022-03-17T14:22:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T19:22:51","slug":"100513_hail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/05\/13\/100513_hail\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Sage"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were driving through a neighborhood yesterday and Debbie observed a lone Desert Willow that – as she put it – was “blooming up a storm.” Most of them aren’t blooming yet, and so my response about the over-achiever was that it would be sorry when it froze. OK, so it wasn’t that funny…but it was prescient, sort of.<\/p>\n

Last night around 11:00 a line of thunderstorms rolled across our area, dumping some brief heavy rain, along with small but fierce hail. When Debbie retrieved the newspaper at 5:30 this morning (we also have an over-achieving paper carrier), she found this scene in our flowerbed:<\/p>\n

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Despite morning temperatures in the mid-50s, these little flowers were still packed in ice from the hailstorm. Besides being beaten, there’s a good chance they won’t survive the chill, although our hope is that the ground temperature didn’t drop to a killing degree.<\/p>\n

[Fortunately, this appears to be the worst damage we sustained from the hail, and this occurred only because the icy balls rolled off the roof and accumulated in one unfortunate spot.]<\/p>\n

“It will be a cold day in July before…” is a common aphorism around here, but perhaps we should start referring to ice storms in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We were driving through a neighborhood yesterday and Debbie observed a lone Desert Willow that – as she put it – was “blooming up a storm.” Most of them aren’t blooming yet, and so my response about the over-achiever was that it would be sorry when it froze. OK, so it wasn’t that funny…but it… Continue reading Ice Sage<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midland-odessa","category-nature","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8949,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/8949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}