Smithfields own Natural Disaster

On Wed June 2nd, We had a crazy storm that hit mostly just Smithfield. We had rain that was coming down in sheets, and hail that looked like the pea ice you get at sonic, along with lightning and thunder. I truly have never seen a storm like this before. The lightning hit about every 3 seconds. The sky looked like a strobe light. We were watching all the craziness when Brent started yelling at me that he needed help. Our basement was flooding with water in three different spots. Brent and Tanner started to bail the water out of our window wells while Landon and I sucked up the water from the inside with our carpet cleaner and put towels in the windows. We would just get done and think we were safe and it would fill again and start coming in all over again. I think that I emptied the tank to my carpet cleaner about 20 times. We then started to go to the neighbors homes and help them. Many of the neighbors around us had window wells filling up, some like us had some water get into the house, and two very unlucky neighbors had their window broken out by the force of the running water and mud, and lost most everything in their basements. We are very grateful we only had a little bit to deal with and ended with just having to have our carpets cleaned. I heard the next day that Smithfield had and inch and a half of rain in 45 minutes, with Hail. I think it was the hail that made it so bad, clogging the drain systems. Several of our friends said that they were driving on main street and there was so much water in blew the man hole covers off and was shooting water three feet in the air on the road. I also heard that there were over 20 homes that had severe damage. It was defiantly an experience. One I don't want to have again! One of the saddest things to me was my plants. We have spent many hours planting our veggie garden and in our flower garden. I was so proud of my Iris's in full bloom and I had the biggest prettiest bleeding heart... They are all dead... Gone!! No bloom left on any of my plants. The veggie garden in all but washed away. Brent basically took my bleeding heart down to its roots because it was so beat up. I morn my plants!

Brent in the window well bailing out water. It was to his knees.

The street with a river of water and hail flowing. My neighbor three houses up had wood chips in her yard. They were strung from her house to three houses down past my house.

The front of Brent's truck

My poor flower pot! I moved it as soon as I could. I hope it lives. Look at the piles of hail.

Megs sidewalk chalk. She had been playing outside just 20 min before.. It was so warm then I did not want to be out there.

This is my side walk up near my front porch. It had two different rivers of water flowing trough it.

My poor flower taking a beating.

The rain gutters were full and overflowing. This water was just beating down on my flowers. I took this picture with a very very slow shudder speed to be able to see the water flow.

This is not nice snow flakes. Again, slow shudder speed to catch the fast falling balls of ice we call hail.