A 22 —Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 5,1980
High winds
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were hanging, and the stalks
were broken.”
In the Prescott area,
things were about the same,
he said. He cited the Henry
Eberly farm which suffered
a 50 percent loss on their
wheat, with 60 acres of com
and some soybeans hard-hit
too.
Hoke said- there were
about 25 farms affected by
the Saturday and Sunday
storms, and added “a dollar
value of the damage would
only be a wild guess ”
However, he said the
damage to structures would
far exceed the damage to
crops
Clyde Deck, a dairy far
mer on Ramona Road, lost a
75 x 40 frame bam, and one
end of a tile block bam was
blown out by the gale force
winds Deck explained he
usually keeps about 25
Holstein calves m the barn
that was leveled, but for
tunately there were only 3
calves in it at the time of the
storm
The winds blew out the end of Clyde Deck’s tile
block barn, yet left some of the straw bales un
touched.
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“We were getting ready
for the Fall calf crop and had
moved most of the calves to
another bam. We only lost
one heifer ”
By Tuesday, friends and
neighbors were will into the
clean up process on the Deck
farm Clyde smiled, even
with all the damage facing
him, and said he is “sure
glad for the help ”
The electric company was
also busy trmg to clean up
after the storm. In the one
mile distance between
Prescott and Ramona Roads
26 of their poles were
snapped off anywhere from 4
to 8 feet above the ground
level Remains of the poles
were strewn in com fields,
wheat fields, and in pasture
“You know we had wind
when it snapped those
poles,” Deck exclaimed
Miller of EMA agreed with
him
“When I tried to put the
pieces of the storm puzzle
together after I travelled
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done to the Henry Eberly barn roof and tool shed.
This farm lies less than a mile northwest of the
Deck farm, along King Rd
damage, I noticed the
northern part of the County
got heavy ram and hail, but
not the excessive wind
“Down in the southeastern
part of the County, where
most of the property damage
occurred, I think two fronts
hit the area at once with gale
force and ravaged the area ”
What led Miller to his
conslusions was the
discussions he had with
various residents in the
area ‘ They told me that
they thought the storm had
passed them, but that it
turned around Then,
another front hit them at the
same time ’
Miller pointed out no
funnel clouds were sighted,
however he felt the storm
had toi nado force winds He
noted that the storm didn’t
touch down on the ground
but staved at least 4 feet
above it This he said he
determined because of the
way the utility poles were
snapped
Miller said the hail that
pelted the area at first was
unusually shaped The hail
was shaped like your little
finger and pierced the corn
like a bullet Then it changed
to the normal mable shape
and later it rained ”
The result of the hail storm
was battered corn, but ac
cording to County Agent
Hoke, this corn will still
produce a normal crop
Unless the hail
penetrated the growing tip,
the corn stalk will continue
to grow and produce an ear
the stalk will not be
stunted It would have been
more of a disaster if the
storm would have hit when
the com was in silks and
tassles ”
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The soybeans that were hit
should recover, but the oats
and wheat are lost, Hoke
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