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Hail Storm Ruins Crops Save Email Print
Posted: 11:15 PM Jul 4, 2008
Last Updated: 11:15 PM Jul 4, 2008
Reporter: Jamie Edmonds
Email Address: jamie.edmonds@wilx.com

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"It's gone, it's destroyed," Pat Day said. "There's nothing left in there."

What was once Pat Day's field of dreams, is now a field of ruin.

"There's nothing you can do about it," he said.

This Charlotte Farmer lost more than a 140 acres of wheat and corn after severe storms battered the area last Wednesday.

"Everyone buttoned down here thinking we would get a regular storm," Day said, "next thing we know we had golf-ball sized hail."

Day said he's never seen or heard a storm like that one in his 32 years of farming.

"I can't describe it," he said. "I've never seen anything like it in my life."

And he's never seen devastation like it left behind either.

High winds took down trees and heavy rains flooded the fields, but he said the hail was the deal breaker.

"I knew I had lost everything the minute I drove by the field," Day said. "It was still raining and looked down through here and I knew I had lost a lot of money."

A lot of money lost, in a short period of time.

"Gross money... I probably lost $80,000 dollars," he said. "And I'm just a small farmer. There are good sized farmers that are hurting worse than I am."

Just a few minutes of fury that will have lasting results.

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