i'm sure a someone with photography skills is cringing at these pictures. three terrible attempts at a shot of the hail. pitch black, through the glass, from far away. it was a difficult shot for me.
last night honey was supposed to get home at 6:15. then 6:30. then 6:45. then "i'll just text you when i leave." so i gave up attempting to entertain baby girl inside (i was wearing my pajamas... actually we both were... and wasn't in the mood to model that to the neighbors) and took her outside. the backyard happened for about 30 seconds before she requested the front yard. the garage turned into the driveway then the sidewalk and then walking down the street to get the mail. we saw a gorgeous rainbow that came from the dry storm (clouds, wind, thunder, and lightening, but no rain) we'd just had. i took a picture and texted it to my honey. then we walked back home. in the ten minutes that lapsed the weather went from super sunny and hot and we were almost sweating... to windy and cloudy and cold. baby girl hung out on the driveway begging me to play with her. i hung out in the shelter of the garage begging her to come play with me. then the sunny sky started to let out some raindrops. then more and more. all while my baby stood at the end of the driveway... not coming to me. then it was really raining. and eventually my baby inched her way up to the garage saying "wet! wet!" yes baby girl... you're super wet now.
and then the rain started pouring down and then blowing horizontally. and then it started hailing and it looked like popcorn popping. you won't see a video of this right now though because blogger sucks. it was the size of large blueberries and it came down so hard that it bounced two feet high back in the air. and it was so loud. it was awesome. meanwhile i was getting texts and calls from my friends saying stuff like "i don't have a tv, is everything okay?!" and "there's a freaking tornado watch! i'm headed to my basement!" and from my neighbor saying "we're on lockdown at sam's club in their tornado shelter but hailey is at home alone right now... will you watch out for her if a tornado comes through the neighborhood?!" (ps- that neighbor was still at sam's club 2.5 hours later when i talked to her at 9pm). then the hail stopped and two minutes later honey arrived home! i was happy to see his undented car to which he replied, "what? no, i didn't see any hail. i didn't see any rain even until i pulled into our neighboorhood and it was sprinkling." SERIOUSLY?!?! so then we went and checked out the hail in the yard while i got more texts and calls. and then we went inside.
and the rain, hail, thunder, lightening, crazy winds, etc. pattern kept going for the next three hours. it would come down so hard i thought for sure it would break our house. and then it would die down some. and then it would come back in the blink of an eye... with a frightening vengance. we waited until it died down enough (and they removed the tornado warnings) to take baby girl upstairs for bedtime. it was so super crazy but so awesome. i was fascinated. i absolutely loooove storms like that.
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