Unfortunately, this was predictable.

Baseball-sized hail took out a solar farm in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, on Friday.

The hail shattered most of the panels on the 5.2-megawatt solar project, sparing an odd panel like missing teeth in a white smile. 

Wyoming has only one commercial-scale solar farm, but a second project is under construction south of Cheyenne.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency ranks this area in its the highest category for hail risk on the national index. 

Doubtful that a nuclear power plant would have suffered the same fate. What’s worse is that this 3-year-old solar farm in Nebraska has been destroyed. Bad news for federal taxpayers, who paid 30 percent of the cost expecting a 20 year or more return on power generation.

Ultimately, this was a grift project to benefit the well-connected and they’ve laughed all the way to the bank.