Mike Landis

While it'll be weeks before the full cost of Tuesday’s hailstorm is calculated, the scope of the damage makes it clear the event will go down as one of the most expensive disasters in Springfield history- if not the costliest.

While it'll be weeks before the full cost of Tuesday’s hailstorm is calculated, the scope of the damage makes it clear the event will go down as one of the most expensive disasters in Springfield history- if not the costliest. It'll easily go down as the most expensive in nearly two decades.

Check out this picture from the Ash Grove area looking east at the hail-producing thunderstorm as it was hitting north/west Springfield. Image taken by my mother, Linda Brown.