wow! Montana dealing with severe weather

[donsu]

this is from an email alert from RSOE HAVARIA Emergency Disaster Info. Service


Northeastern Montana is under a small stream flood warning this afternoon, after a storm bringing large hail and heavy rain blew through the area yesterday afternoon. A less severe storm moved through the area shortly after midnight. In Glasgow, the National Weather Service says the two storms brought about two-and-a-half inches of rain to the area in about six hours. Officials say the wind-driven hail broke windows, damaged siding and flattened crops. Kenny Newton says 80 cars at his dealership, Newton Motors, were damaged by the hail. Windows were broken out of homes, U-S Highway Two flooded and the underpass that connects the highway to downtown Glasgow was flooded. Hailstones broke out windows at Western Drug in Glasgow, allowing the rain inside, causing some flooding. Meteorologist Ruth Ebert says antelope Creek, west of Glasgow, was running higher than anyone had ever seen it. She says the hail storm lasted about 15 minutes. Officials in Richland County say yesterday's hail storm also damaged crops and broke windows there.
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damage to crops is the worst news

you know, future food

[aquart]

1. Get used to it.

This is going to be adapt or die.

[donsu]

3. true

nt

[TwilightGardener]

2. That's a big wheat area--wheat here in NE is about to be harvested--that's a real shame.

I love the weather in the Northern Plains (used to live in western SD)--wildest thunderstorms, windstorms, 100-degree heat, and then a month later, blizzards/subzero temps. Makes you feel alive!

[aquart]

4. I am haunted by a map I saw here at DU a while ago.

It showed our wheat belt moved away from us all the way up into Canada. We are simply not preparing for these changes.

[SoCalDem]

5. Summer storms are the norm..Gotta water the crops & grow

the mountain meadows :)

Just hunker down & wait it out :)