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the morning after

June 14, 2012 By Talya Tate Boerner

Just after I posted Mother Nature has a wicked sense of humor she pelts our Dallas neighborhood with softball size hail for twenty minutes. Long enough to break car windows, tree limbs, house windows and lights around the garage. My neighbor lost 23 windows…
All those things can be replaced. 
The morning after, our neighborhood looks like a monsoon swept down Worth Street. My car is dented and dinged, the window is shattered and a wiper was tossed across the yard. The morning after, I can’t imagine how people survive devastating tornadoes or hurricanes or tsunamis – losing homes, crops, lives, entire communities.

Mother Nature…

talya

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Filed Under: Home, Nature & Seasons Tagged With: Dallas, Munger Place, Storm

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Comments

  1. Colene says

    June 14, 2012 at 5:34 am

    Glad no one was hurt! Like you said, “those things can be replaced.”

  2. Anonymous says

    June 14, 2012 at 6:16 am

    I think u have made Mother Nature mad. Glad u didn’t lose any windows in your house.

  3. Kathy says

    June 14, 2012 at 6:42 am

    It was a wild night! I’m still blown away by the pics of Lakewood CC with so much hail that it looked like snow and then fog rising from the cold hail on the warm ground … crazy! (and spooky)

  4. TateFarmGirl says

    June 14, 2012 at 7:23 am

    I’ve never seen anything like it.

  5. Anonymous says

    June 16, 2012 at 9:35 pm

    So glad your house and lives were spared!!! Spooky is an understatement!


Hi! I'm Talya Tate Boerner. Writer, Reader, Arkansas Master Naturalist / Master Gardener, Author of

THE ACCIDENTAL SALVATION OF GRACIE LEE (2016)

GENE, EVERYWHERE: a life-changing visit from my father-in-law (2020)

BERNICE RUNS AWAY (2022)

THE THIRD ACT OF THEO GRUENE (coming 2025)

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