Monday, 30 March 2009

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  STORMY!

     Yesterday we had quite the thunderstorm in the late afternoon. Bob was outside working when he noticed the western sky getting darker and darker as the breeze began picking up and became a pretty stiff wind. Since he's such a storm lover, he decided to sit on the front porch and watch the storm come in. (I stood behind him, inside the door where i was protected... wimp...) We could see the rain sweeping across the fields from the west and getting closer and closer. Just about the time the wind threatened to blow the hair right off his head, the first fat raindrops began pounding the yard, and Bob grabbed his camp chair and hightailed it into the house... and just in time! 

     For the first few seconds it was only rain, and then the hail started! We don't get hail here very often, and when we do it's usually mixed in with a cold rain and doesn't amount to much. This time was different! It was only pea-sized, but it the wind was really blasting, and the hail sounded like bullets on the roof and front storm door where we were standing. The hailstorm lasted only about five minutes, but with the gale-like winds driving it it put down more than we've ever had up to this point. It rained for quite a while afterwards, giving us the good soaking we've been needing for a while. I hurried for the camera so i could show you the hail before it melted in the rain.

  This is right outside our front door, to the right of where we were standing:

  

  And this is on the side of the house where the deck used to be, off our living room:

  

     The wind was very strong, as i've mentioned. It was all the way up to 59 mph there for a while, and we weren't sure if the hail would damage the storm door or not. Fortunately, there wasn't any damage anywhere that we could see, and the van, which we had left parked in the driveway, wasn't hurt at all.

     The next county over to the east, however, must have gotten it a lot harder than we did, because on the news this morning they showed a trailer park that was very heavily damaged, with three persons injured. I realize trailers are often victims of high winds, but it takes a lot of force to blow a building apart the way these had been. There were numerous reports of trees down and shingles blown off, etc., around here, too, but nothing of that magnitude. Those trailers were destroyed.

     About an hour after the height of the storm, when the rain had diminished to a light drizzle, Bob noticed a beautiful, perfect rainbow in the east. The arc was complete and the colors so brilliant! Because it was still drizzling and the ground was pure mud where i had to stand, i could only get a picture of part of the bow, but i'm sure you'll think it's as beautiful as we did. We watched it for nearly 10 minutes before it became almost too faint to see.

   

     I haven't been on Xanga much in the past week, but i have tried to catch up with you all the best i could. Don't know if i missed anything big or not, but i hope everything's been going well for all of you. I might not be on much this week, either (stupid real life! why do we let it interfere with our Xanga addiction?? ).

     I don't have anything more to say, so i won't bore you by trying to make something up. :)

     May your day be interesting!

     Grandma Kitty

  "Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it." - Robert A. Heinlein

   

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