Wild Weather

Here's a picture of some hail Doug brought in the house after our 20 minute rain/hail storm last night:

And yes, it makes a LOUD noise as it hits the roof of the house...and the tin roof of the carport. And it bounces like a superball when it hits the pavement.

We're in for some rough weather over the next few days. Tornado warnings and flash flood warnings abound. The tornado sirens were even tested yesterday - tho they are usually tested ONLY at noon on the first of the month ;-)

Last night, the weather finally rolled in. We were in the yard watching this enormous storm front make its way toward us. Lots of lightning, with little wisps of clouds dipping down from the front...the stuff tornadoes grow up to be. A rope tornado was spotted about 20 minutes from us...close enough for me!

So we're watching the skies, waiting for the next band of thunderstorms to begin. As I type, the skies are darkening, and there is the distant sound of thunder (or 'funger', as Everson calls it). At the latest report, this could carry on until Wednesday. Maybe then I can take down the special 'hail screen' that we put up on our living room windows to protect them from the projected quarter-to-golfball-size hail we could be getting ;-)

Somehow, preparing for a snowstorm in NY was less stressful than the uncertainty of this weather...