Stormy Nights Return
What an exciting night we had last night! I spent most of yesterday laid out with a really terrible headache. I can weather a broken finger or the flu and still get work done, but headaches are my kryptonite. I can't get jack done except for staring forward and groaning...much less reading, proofreading, and arting. Messed up sinuses run in our family on my mom's side so any time the pressure changes in the air, it's generally our weathervane brains that signal something's up.
It was around sunset that our night started to get wild. We had been watching the doppler radar on tv light up with red and purple over our area when suddenly our satellite went out and the rain began. We knew there was a dangerous storm in the area, but didn't really take it seriously till the power went out and the dog started to get restless. My black lab Blaze hates lightening and thunder in the first place, but this time, she started to bark and run back and forth. With our little elevator out, we made a mad dash for the basement with golf ball sized hail pelting down on our heads.
That's the hail in my father's hand! I've never seen any that big before in real life. Lucky for us, whatever tornado was in the area passed by quickly and we were unharmed, our property undamaged. It must have been a close call for us to get the worst part of the hail!
We had dinner at Burger King and read books by candlelight until the power came back on. It's amazing how silent everything is when you don't have tv, computers, or anything else distracting you. Sometimes it is nice to sit in the dark and watch the lightening. I'm one of those odd folks who likes the smell of burning candles.
So that was the end to our exciting night. Everybody say hello to Georgia's tornado season!
It was around sunset that our night started to get wild. We had been watching the doppler radar on tv light up with red and purple over our area when suddenly our satellite went out and the rain began. We knew there was a dangerous storm in the area, but didn't really take it seriously till the power went out and the dog started to get restless. My black lab Blaze hates lightening and thunder in the first place, but this time, she started to bark and run back and forth. With our little elevator out, we made a mad dash for the basement with golf ball sized hail pelting down on our heads.
That's the hail in my father's hand! I've never seen any that big before in real life. Lucky for us, whatever tornado was in the area passed by quickly and we were unharmed, our property undamaged. It must have been a close call for us to get the worst part of the hail!
We had dinner at Burger King and read books by candlelight until the power came back on. It's amazing how silent everything is when you don't have tv, computers, or anything else distracting you. Sometimes it is nice to sit in the dark and watch the lightening. I'm one of those odd folks who likes the smell of burning candles.
So that was the end to our exciting night. Everybody say hello to Georgia's tornado season!