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 . I was caught in the school with all the children and I thought some of them would go mad with fright . Three of them fainted , and two girls took hysterics , and Tommy Blewett did nothing but shriek at the top of his voice the whole time . '' `` I only squealed once , '' said Davy proudly . `` My garden was all smashed flat , '' he continued mournfully , `` but so was Dora 's , '' he added in a tone which indicated that there was yet balm in Gilead . Anne came running down from the west gable . `` Oh , Gilbert , have you heard the news ?
Mr. Levi Boulter 's old house was struck and burned XXXXX the ground .
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