The sound Kristen Restani heard at her Stonewall home on April 1, 2024, could have been mistaken for baseballs pounding the west end of the structure. Her father, Jimmy Duecker, and sister, Katelyn Eames, sat stunned inside their respective homes on the family’s eighty-acre orchard. When the hail shattered the windows, Restani knew the year’s burgeoning peach crop, which grows annually in the Hill Country from spring to early fall, was going to fare badly—she just didn’t know how badly. The storm brought 50-mile-per-hour winds that stripped the trees. It was the worst the family had experienced since it began growing peaches, in 1956. The ground was littered with bruised, unsellable fruit. Seventy percent of the crop was destroyed. The family announced it would not ship fresh…
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