Thursday, March 26, 2009

Biggest hail stones I have ever seen!

This afternoon (well, I guess, yesterday afternoon) we had this tremendous hail storm. Joseph and I were practicing piano and heard this roar outside. We rushed to the front door and saw hail starting to fall. It got louder and louder and I went to get my camera, then went to the back porch to video it.
Oh my gosh, it was SO crazy!!! I have never seen anything like that at all! It was thundering and lightning and pretty scary.
We had been home only about 15 minutes and, wow, was I glad we weren't on the road anymore. I can't imagine that there weren't a bunch of wrecks because of this. I feel really sorry for anyone who had their car parked outside.
As soon as I got back inside, I called Ben. I had been really worried he was on his way home (it was around 5:30 I think). Thankfully he was still at the office and I told him not to leave until he was SURE any severe weather was over.



Mosey was really excited! Not quite scared enough, though, since he ran out into it for a few seconds before he realized he was getting pelted in the head and his mom was screaming for him to get back under the porch.



Not snow, piles of hail stones.



They are about the same size as golf balls, and look like them, too!



Can you imagine one of these falling thousands of feet from the sky and landing on your car?



A lot of them shattered on impact, and you could see the layers of ice formation.



Look at this one compared to the size of a quarter!

8 comments:

Kelly said...

I love your hail stone pictures. Unbelievable.

It's Been a Day! said...

great pics! i couldn't believe the size of the hail last night. luckily, our cars are without damage.

Lonna said...

Those are great pictures of the hail. And it cracked me up in the video when Mosey ran out on the deck and his body was cringing as he was being pelted with golf balls essentially, but he took it like a man.

I didn't know that you had a pool, how fun for your family in the icky heat of the summer.

Amanda said...

We got a storm, but none of that huge hail. I feel like I always miss out on the exciting weather! Oh well, I bet our car is glad.

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