Hail Storm

Tonight I let Autumn pick what she wanted to do after school.  She said she wanted to go to that place that “Bianca’s Mom loves that is hot pink.”  So, off to Taco Cabana we went.  We share the $5 Cabana Bowl & dip the shell in the pineapple salsa.  We got her reading homework done, and then she had a little dance party for one b/c there was some fun music playing.

We got home, put out the trash, and then stopped to watch the sky b/c it was really windy.  There were 5 layers of clouds overhead & they were different colors, heading in different directions, and at different speeds.  It was really cool to watch!

You can’t really tell in this pic, but those clouds at the end of the street were GREEN!!!  I had never seen green clouds before.

The sky behind our house was pretty cool looking, too.  While we were standing out there watching the sky, we heard the tornado sirens go off.  Autumn was freaking out & said we needed to go inside & get in the closet underneath the stairs.  We had been watching the news & I knew that the storms were well to our north, so we watched the sky just a little bit longer.  After 3 minutes, the tornado sirens went off.

We were watching TV & doing rainbow looms when all of a sudden we lost our TV connection & it started raining really hard.  Then out of nowhere, it turned into hail!  The north side of the house sounded like it was getting pelted with golf balls & we even let out a yell once or twice b/c it sounded like it was going to break the glass in the windows.  I ran out on the back porch to grab a piece of hail & it was the size of a quarter!

These are some pictures that friends, who only 2 miles from our house, posted on Facebook!!!  Pretty crazy, huh?  I’m so thankful that we have a garage & that my car was inside.  I’m also glad Nick was at work where he was safe & that his car was in a parking garage.  Luckily nothing was broken as far as I could tell.  After the hail finally passed, we just got a lot of soaking rain, which we really needed.  I was glad the storms moved out of the area by 9:00 so that the weather broadcast didn’t interrupt Parenthood!  LOL!