All Hail

We just got iced. It's Mother Nature gone wild, with ice cubes instead of mardi gras beads. It went from a lazy, partly cloudy Sunday afternoon to "OMG WTF THE SKY IS FALLING!" in no time. I clicked on the tv and sure enough, a severe storm and tornado warning were in effect. The red cone of doppler death was laid right over our house. It started to rain, the wind picked up, and then we heard the tinkly tink of pea-sized hail stones clacking on the road. At first we were like, "Check it out! Hail! Cool!" Then the hail got bigger. And bigger. And the wind got wilder and wilder.

I asked my husband like three times if we should be getting in the closet. He scoffed. Thankfully we didn't need to. It quickly blew over and it's back to being sunny and gorgeous, though a bit cooler. All the hail on the ground has made the temp drop significantly. It was seventy degrees earlier. Now we can see our breath. Wild! Check out these pics.

To give you some scale as to how big the hail was. We joked that during the several years we lived in Florida, we never experienced a hurricane. Just months after we move back up here we get freaking hail. I'm just glad it wasn't big enough to mess up our vehicles.

To give an idea of just how much fell. This is our front walk. It was a lot.


The fog was getting thicker. And Leon is getting laaaaarger.Sorry. Couldn't resist.