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Hail! In August!
Aug. 23rd, 2024 11:59 pmToday's forecast had called for a thunderstorm, and thunder it did, followed by phenomenal amounts of hail. Hail! In the summer! J thinks of this as normal enough, but he's from a different part of the country and I had never seen such a thing. I rushed to the front door to see if it really was hail and not just extraordinarily loud rain, and yes, the dried brown lawn was covered with a layer of pea-sized pellets of ice.
While I was on the front porch, there was a flash of lightning to the east and an almost immediate BOOM of thunder to the west, so freaking loud that it maxed out my hearing! I jumped! D was in the kitchen and said the roof shook with the force of it. Of course this gave me a migraine, but it was really something, the loudest thunder I had ever heard in my life. D and I were cracking up with laughter.
An hour or so later, things were much calmer and the rain had stopped. I drove to the neighborhood bookstore to pick up a book that had come in for me, and Steve the clerk asked what the thunderstorm had been like up in the hills. (We're pretty low for "hills" but still a bit higher elevation than the bookstore.) I told my story, then another customer told us that he'd been working with power tools in his kitchen, directly below a skylight, and the flash of lightning over the skylight was so direct and intense that he dropped his tools and ran from the room - as he said, probably not necessary at all but it felt like the right thing to do at the time.
Later, I had a quiet evening and watched the last of the Hailey Dean mystery movies while J was out playing Magic. No movie night this week, as our host was on vacation. After J got home, I got to watch the Emma Thompson version of Sense and Sensibility with him to improve his familiarity with Jane Austen!
While I was on the front porch, there was a flash of lightning to the east and an almost immediate BOOM of thunder to the west, so freaking loud that it maxed out my hearing! I jumped! D was in the kitchen and said the roof shook with the force of it. Of course this gave me a migraine, but it was really something, the loudest thunder I had ever heard in my life. D and I were cracking up with laughter.
An hour or so later, things were much calmer and the rain had stopped. I drove to the neighborhood bookstore to pick up a book that had come in for me, and Steve the clerk asked what the thunderstorm had been like up in the hills. (We're pretty low for "hills" but still a bit higher elevation than the bookstore.) I told my story, then another customer told us that he'd been working with power tools in his kitchen, directly below a skylight, and the flash of lightning over the skylight was so direct and intense that he dropped his tools and ran from the room - as he said, probably not necessary at all but it felt like the right thing to do at the time.
Later, I had a quiet evening and watched the last of the Hailey Dean mystery movies while J was out playing Magic. No movie night this week, as our host was on vacation. After J got home, I got to watch the Emma Thompson version of Sense and Sensibility with him to improve his familiarity with Jane Austen!