Yesterday afternoon we had a storm rip through here. It had Kevin and I wondering if we were some how still in Colorado. It started out like a regular thunder storm until just after lunch hail started to come down. I was amazed!
We live in the desert now, it's not supposed to hail, right? Well I was wrong. It continued to rain throughout the afternoon and the streets started to look like lakes.
At one point we thought we had seen the worst of it, but we were wrong. At about 5:45 pm we started to hear a horrible sound coming from the roof. We looked outside and this is what we saw. More hail, but not like before and not like any I had ever seen in Colorado. It was huge! I know Colorado can produce hail like this and even bigger, we had just never seen it before. Funny we had to come to Arizona to see giant hail...who would have thought?
This is after it had melted some. They were bigger, they just melted really fast.
(that blue dot at the top of this picture is a tennis ball, just to give an idea)
Lucky for us our house and cars lived through it. However, other people weren't so lucky. Our neighbors had broken windows, dented cars, holes in the stucco. Some friends and neighbors had hail crashing through their car windows, it was crazy!
5 comments:
Wow! I've never experienced hail that big. Glad you came out unscathed. :)
Wow! That is crazy! I remember having some pretty big hail storms growing up, but I wouldn't expect that in Arizona. Glad there was no damage for you guys!
You were blessed!!! Unbelievable- that hail was huge!
Wow!! And you thought you were going to miss our lovely hail storms!?? Crazy size of Hail!! Good thing Kev didn't decide to ride his bike to school that day..or did he? Hahaha :)
That's a lot of rain, those hailstones look scarry!
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