Damage Seen From On High

There was a pretty nasty hail storm went across Northern Montana earlier in the month of June. I gave it a <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2688-Hay-Down.html">brief mention</a> and left it at that and there was some comments on how bad it was. I found it really interesting that the damage could be seen in satellite imagery.<br />n<br />n<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/shownh.php3?img_id=14337'><!– s9ymdb:107 –><img width='540' height='709' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/FortPeck_TMO_2007170.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />nYou can clearly see the devestation that was caused by this storm in the pictures. You can clearly see why <a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a> <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/06/28/news/state/91-glasgow.txt">declared Glasgow a disaster area</a>. It was pretty nasty.<br />n<br />nI've had hail come through and wipe out crops and grass before. Maybe not on the scale we see in these pictures, but it's happened. Depressing is the nicest term I can use for it. How else is a person supposed to react? The weather is something a human has no control over and to lose your crops to the weather for me is depressing. It's hard to get mad about it because who do you get mad at? God, Mother Nature? It does no good to be mad at them, they don't notice. You can get mad at the insurance companies for not paying, the government for not declaring it a disaster to your satisfaction, your spouse for just being there, but God/Mather Nature, they don't care.<br />n<br />nThe devastation such disaster brings upon a farm or ranch is hard to describe. I feel for these people having been there and done it and bought the t shirt as My Darling Wife says so I can say "I know how they feel." I guarantee you they feel like hell.<br />n<br />n<strong>I was still looking for a panacea, for some kind of relief from all of that life, from all that damage. Tatum O'Neal</strong>