The Effects of an Awful Thunderstorm That Hit Us

This was the size of the hail five hours after the storm.

The hail broke a window in our screened room. At least it was only one!

And none of the windows in the main part of the house broke, so that's good

And made a new skylight in our bird feeder!

We have to get all new siding now, as well as roofing on both the barn and the house

At least our insurance is covering most of it!

It also destroyed mom's flower gardens

She's a huge gardener, and her flowers are her pride and joy. Living up north with a relatively short growing season, there will more than likely not be enough time for any of it to grow back before it gets cold again.

And my parents' flourishing vegetable garden

It was my parents' first veggie garden in almost a decade, and it was coming along beautifully. Now it's all gone

But the biggest problem is all the dents on our camper

It wouldn't seem like a big deal, except apparently according to some stupid law written in a few years ago, despite the fact that there was no structural or functional damage done at all to the camper, the insurance company will consider it totaled and take it away from us whether we want them to or not. Camping is our life in the summer, and it will be awful to lose it. We would be more than happy to continue camping with it, dents or not, and I know a lot of people who wouldn't think twice to use it as long as there was nothing else wrong with it (which there isn't), so I don't know why the government seems to think it's a lost cause.

Sorry about all the ranting! I know it could have been a lot worse. This storm just came out of nowhere and took us all by surprise, and I wanted to vent my frustration, mainly about losing our camper. That was my childhood since I was about nine years old, so it's really depressing to think we won't have that anymore.