Different sorts of flying saucers
If ever there was a day when you have to wonder if the emergency alarms are testing or for real, this is it. Realize every Tuesday at 10 AM, the tornado sirens are tested; downstairs, mom (who has the day off) has the TV on and the EAS system just activated. I had to turn on the little TV here in the computer room to make sure it was just a test and not an actual alert.
See. last night we had some severe thunderstorms blow through. The worst of it passed north of here, but we definitely got batches of heavy rain and lightning and possibly tiny hail. This morning, conveniently when I had to leave for school, we were under a thunderstorm warning. Oh, goody. The drive was terribly exciting; I love having my wipers on hyper and still not being able to see. It could have been worse; once I'd gotten to school--and I parked pretty close today; none of that walking stuff in super-crappy weather for me--I noticed a bunch of oddly-shaped ice in the grass. Hail. I'd completely missed the hail, which was shaped like those flying saucer candies from years ago. It was so thick that when I got out of class an hour and a half later, there was still some on the ground. There were only four of us in class at first, and we had a project due today, and the other girl said it started hailing as she was walking there from the computer lab. Oh, not good. She said she had hail all over her bag when she got to the building; she'd used it to shield her head.
I'd left early enough that the bus hadn't picked up the middle schoolers from my subdivision. They get picked up at the bottom of someone's driveway, and whoever lives at that house took pity on the kids and opened their garage door. When I drove past, at least a dozen, probably more, kids were huddled inside. Yeah, this morning sucked. Luckily the rain has stopped for now. It's just foggy.
See. last night we had some severe thunderstorms blow through. The worst of it passed north of here, but we definitely got batches of heavy rain and lightning and possibly tiny hail. This morning, conveniently when I had to leave for school, we were under a thunderstorm warning. Oh, goody. The drive was terribly exciting; I love having my wipers on hyper and still not being able to see. It could have been worse; once I'd gotten to school--and I parked pretty close today; none of that walking stuff in super-crappy weather for me--I noticed a bunch of oddly-shaped ice in the grass. Hail. I'd completely missed the hail, which was shaped like those flying saucer candies from years ago. It was so thick that when I got out of class an hour and a half later, there was still some on the ground. There were only four of us in class at first, and we had a project due today, and the other girl said it started hailing as she was walking there from the computer lab. Oh, not good. She said she had hail all over her bag when she got to the building; she'd used it to shield her head.
I'd left early enough that the bus hadn't picked up the middle schoolers from my subdivision. They get picked up at the bottom of someone's driveway, and whoever lives at that house took pity on the kids and opened their garage door. When I drove past, at least a dozen, probably more, kids were huddled inside. Yeah, this morning sucked. Luckily the rain has stopped for now. It's just foggy.