Having another week of insanity here...again, I am behind on posting...moving on to an unscheduled (but hopefully amusing) blog post...
Hail the Hailstorm! Actually, no hailing of the hailstorm. We had a severe thunderstorm move through late yesterday afternoon. It started out just like you’d expect-drizzling all day with no significant rainfall. About 4:15 pm it got dark-dark enough that the street lamps popped on. I looked at the weather app and there was a severe thunderstorm warning, with high winds, hail, and possible isolated tornados. Typical spring weather...then an alert came through about damaging hail. Large, evil hail plummeting from the sky to get you. Get your pets in, get your vehicles in, get yourself in-the hail’s a-coming so find shelter. In the first few seconds of the storm the hail was marble size. Then it was mixed with golf ball size hail. The sound from the hail battering the roof was astonishing. There was frequent lightening, so I didn’t run out immediately after the hail stopped. When it was safe, I scurried out to collect some of the hailstones. They were kinda melty, but they were still a good size. The hailstones from this storm left 3 inch (7.62 cm) deep craters in my raised garden bed. There was a lot of damage in the area, especially to vehicles. Plenty of cracked/shattered windshields, and dents. Some houses had roof damage. Take a gander at my hailstone collection:
And now, meet Measure! I like to use this G3 Standing Thoroughbred StableMate as an unofficial ruler (since I find it hilarious). And yes, that is the word measure written in Sharpie. Model horse people will instantly understand the size of an object when Measure is next to something. In this case, I had Measure measure the hailstones:
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