From: Pat Ferguson <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Denver Weather
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Date: Friday, July 31, 2009, 11:54 AM

Hi Phil,

I believe it! We've seen hale like that in the summer also. I'll never forget one summer, we hit bad hale storms on the way to Huron one Wednesday night, and then again that same night, on the way home and when we got home, our yard was a few feet burried in hale.

It broke the windows in the truck. I'll never forget that. Going down tohave coffee with Vernon now.

Lovingly,

Pat Ferguson



At 05:26 PM 7/23/2009, you wrote:
> Well, for those who think Denver is a quiet little cow town, a couple of nights ago, between about 8 and 10 PM, we had a couple of huge thunderstorms roll across western suburbs.  It rained really hard for quite awhile and the wind was pretty strong, too, but in some areas, the hail was ping pong ball size and literally got to be two feet deep in places of the western suburbs. Yep, you heard me right, two feet.  I was listening to the ham radio reports from that part of the Denver area because it just rained hard here where I live but about 20 minutes northwest of where I live, they had to call snow plows out to clear the highways of all the hail.  My youngest sister lives 5 minutes west of my house and today she told me they had windows broken out, hail inside the house, the roof damaged, their gutters torn up, tree limbs broken off and laying all over the place, and her flower garden was pulverized.  A neighbor, she said, had 17 windows broken out from the hail. On the news this afternoon, I heard a man say he made 14 individual trips to a dumping area in Lakewood, which is across the street from me, Lakewood, that is, to completely clean up his house and yard from the storm.  That's a lot of mess.  More than a dozen years ago, probably closer to 18 or 20 years ago, there was a storm like that in northwest Denver that did 611 million dollars worth of hail damage.  Some reports claim this will be worse.  Sandy works part time answering calls and making appointments for a mobile vet and one lady she talked with can't find her little dog because before she could let him back in the house, the storm suddenly blew up and the dog is now missing.  Of course, that happens a lot in storms.  We got 32 inches of snow on the level one year about 5 years ago and I shoveled off our deck so the dogs had a path to get into the backyard.  I shoveled all the steps off and then shoveled a wide area of free space at the base of the steps because the snow was too deep for all of our dogs.  After letting them all back in one day, Sandy called me to come and find Zippy.  He was a dachshund and not very big.  He had worked his way into the deeper snow piles up and gotten stuck under the steps so I had to go and fish him out.  Fortunately, this winter storm of 32 inches was in mid April and the next day it was 50 degrees and the snow melted by the end of the week.
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> Phil.