I guess folks wo n't laugh at Uncle Abe 's predictions again . Seems as if all the storms that he 's been prophesying all his life that never happened came all at once . Beats all how he struck the very day though , do n't it ? Look at the mess we have here . I must hustle round and get some boards to patch up that hole in the floor . '' Avonlea folks did nothing the next day but visit each other and compare damages . The roads were impassable for wheels by reason of the hailstones , so they walked or rode on horseback . The mail came late with ill tidings from all over the province . Houses had been struck , people killed and injured ; the whole telephone and telegraph system had been disorganized , and any number of young stock exposed in the fields had perished . Uncle Abe waded out to the blacksmith 's forge early in the morning and spent the whole day there . It was Uncle Abe 's hour of triumph and he enjoyed it to the full . It would be doing Uncle Abe an injustice to say that he was glad the storm had happened ; but since it had to be he was very glad he had predicted it ... to the very day , too . Uncle Abe forgot that he had ever denied setting the day . As for the trifling discrepancy in the hour , that was nothing . Gilbert arrived at Green Gables in the evening and found Marilla and Anne busily engaged in nailing strips of oilcloth over the broken windows . `` Goodness only knows when we 'll get glass for them , '' said Marilla . `` Mr. Barry went over to Carmody this afternoon but not a pane could he get for love or money . Lawson and Blair were cleaned out by the Carmody people by ten o'clock . Was the storm bad at White Sands , Gilbert ? '' `` I should say so .
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