I came home early and tried to take a nap. (Kids have been coming down and trying to get in bed with us EVERY night this week. And I can never get back to sleep.)
I was almost asleep when I heard some intense drumming on the side of the house. What the heck? So, I get up and take a look.
Yep. Hail. Kel’s dad said that it was egg-sized when it started, but I didn’t see any of that. Here’s what I DID see:
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Yes, this is exaggerated because of the concentration effect of rolling off the roof. But, as you can see, it was pretty thick in the yard as well.
It was raining like a …. after it stopped hailing. I bet we had more than a little localized flooding in the area. (We’re too high in elevation to get any more than some raging runoff, but not by the house…)
