hailstorm

[bluebug32]

Yes, scary black sky and pelting hail and thunder and lightning and winds!!!!
In the middle of it my husband came over and said cheerily "Let's go for a bike ride!" Too funny.
Odd to see my pots of cactus full of white ice balls like styrofoam beads.

I was attempting to drive home (was supposed to be on a group ride) in this storm. We didn't get the hail though, just lots of loud thunder and flashes of lighting.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

It was pretty violent- you would not be able to stand out in it. The photos didn't really do it justice (honest!)

But yes it's true- one person's extreme is another person's everyday occurrence. We in the northeast do have our chuckles around here when we hear about all the panic down south when they get a half inch of snow or something.

[short cut sally]

One minute it was raining then it starting hailing. Yesterday I had heard we might get large sized hail (up to 1/2 inch I think) but it was sorta like corn or pea sized. Didn't last long. I couldn't ride yesterday d/t the winds, blue sky's turned to black and poured rain, then back to blue. Just didn't want to take any chances.

[singletrackmind]

The hubby got caught out in a hailstorm awhile back. He stood straight and put his gloved hands over his shoulders. Good thing for his helmet. Lucky it wasn't really big stuff- he was bruised up bad enough as it was. I happened to be making a delivery not far away from him...the ice went though 1 1/2 layers of the cardboard radiator box that was in the back of my truck.
Poor hubby!

So far- knock on wood- we've not seen the sort of stuff other parts of town have gotten, that golf ball and bigger sized stuff.

From another storm a couple of years back, no damage, just lots of little ice pellets...the hubby just got back from a road ride...