What the Hail?!

I sent over Justin some photos of this weekend’s storm for his Indiana Weather Blog and wrote a quick little blurb about them.

Here are a couple of pics of this past weekend’s weather in Monticello. I had no idea that something was coming until I heard the EAS pop on tv. I went straight to my computer to check out the radar…where did that come from?!

Being the weirdos that we are, my friend and I sat outside and watched the clouds roll in (shown in the first pic). It was really strange there was a constant rolling thunder. I don’t ever recall hearing rolling thunder last so long…it must have went on for a good 20 minutes or so.

I went back inside to check the radar and the heaviest was almost right on top of Monticello. I grabbed my camera again and headed back out. The rain started lightly for about 2-3 minutes and then the sky turned blue. It was like we were in the eye of the storm. lol.

Shortly after that, the wind started to pick up a little. Then all of a sudden, WHOSH! The wind blew in real hard and the rain started up again. The rain really started to pick up and forced us to take some shelter flat against the wall under what little overhang my house has on it.

I was looking at the ground and noticed little tiny pieces of hail bouncing upwards. I said, “wow, it’s starting to hail” and all of a sudden here comes another gust of wind and the hail start coming down…I mean really coming down! It was pinging and binging off of everything including my legs and newly soaked socks. I think the biggest that it got was pea-sized…the larger peas. :)

So we just stood there like crazy hillbillies looking for something to do until it passed us by. I know that it wasn’t the coolest thing to do by standing outside, but it was such an adrenaline rush!

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