Today I was glad not to have bike-commuted to work....there was a high windstorm and hailstorm (size of golf balls), rain that caused flooding. The hailstorm came down twice within 2 hr. period around when work shifts finish. Our office building for 2,000 employees, leaked from the roof for past 2 days.

Yesterday I just made it home by bike...8 minutes later, the wind whipped up to 90 km. / hr., driving hail and rain. Scary. I had never seen a hailstorm so violent. I was amazed to see people lolling along leisurely on the bike-ped.path just minutes before the storm, when clearly a black large cloud mass was moving towards all of us. I would be nearly running home, not walking. The storm yesterday resulted in flooding, smashed branches all over the place.

And heard emergency sirens at 15 different times throughout the city the whole evening.