By Lori EhdeArea crops took a beating and residents reported property damage and power outages from a midnight storm that dropped hail and two inches of rain amid 60 mph wind.According to Cattnach Insurance Agent Barb Anderson, the phones rang steadily following the storm Tuesday morning.She said her clients reported pea- to golf-ball-size hail with heavy winds causing damage ranging from minimal to near total losses."‘Toast’ was one word we heard," Anderson said. "It’s fairly widespread, and some places are pretty bad."As of Tuesday morning, Anderson said it was too early to say which areas of the county were hardest hit.She said adjusters typically wait about a week to assess damages in order to see how plants will recover from the beating.Both rural and city residents woke up to property damage.For example, the home of Magnolia farmer Glenn Overgaard had windows broken out. According to Mabel Overgaard, it was hailstones, likely driven by strong winds, that broke the panes.Two large evergreens tipped over on the Tom Foster property at the corner of Highway 75 and Fairview Drive in Luverne.City Public Works employees spent a good share of Tuesday cleaning up downed trees and branches.It took about 16 man hours and a half-dozen truck loads to the tree dump to clean up city boulevards. Residents are responsible for cleaning up damage on private property.The National Weather Service office in Sioux Falls measured wind speeds in Luverne at 63 miles per hours, and that office also received a public report of a damaged residential utility shed in Luverne.In addition to wind and hail damage, power outages plagued city residents.A 12:15 a.m. outage was caused by galloping lines that affected Luverne’s power provider, L&O Power Cooperative, Rock Rapids, Iowa.Electricity was quickly restored through an alternative route, but L&O reportedly had trouble routing the city back to the repaired line, and there was another outage at 3:30 a.m.All of Rock County was part of a tornado watch before and during the storm, but there were no official reports of twister touchdowns.