I don't scare easily but last night was different...

[phlemmy]

Around midnight I woke up to the sound of a crazy thunderstorm. Suddenly it got louder. The hail started. It sounded really small at first then it sounded like bricks htiting the house. SMASH. The windows in both of my bedrooms are broken and glass is everywhere. I jumped out of bed as it sounded like a train was outside my door...tornado? I huddled down on the ground in my hallway and my cat, who is very anti-social, was huddled up next to me. I've never heard a sound like that. I could see out my large living room window while I was in the hallway and everything looked green outside. I was scared. It was a feeling I've never had. I'd hung around home during several hurricanes in Virginia and it never seemed like a big deal. Last night was a big deal.

After the "sound" died off and the hail stopped, a lot of people on my block congregated in the street. The yards were covered in golf ball sized hail. I have one in my freezer. Trees are down everwhere and power just came back on.

I'm tired.

[paologregorio]

Nuts! Glad you're okay.

[phlemmy]

My job just provided me with a brand new truck. It looks like it was beat up with a baseball bat.

[scotty]

Bloody hell

[jimk]

I can sympathize. Here in Kansas that sort of storm isn't hard to imagine at all. Though not common, such weather has been known to happen. Glad you came through it as well as you did.

JimK

[brycycle]

glad to hear you the cat and the Rics are all okay, Sean...

[stevebasshead]

The power of nature is awesome, it puts our fragile existences into perspective. I'm glad you're OK.

[cheyenne]

Close call dude. Sounds like you were lucky.

[winston]

After the getting over the shock of something like this occurring to someone I know, I always come to the realisation that things can be replaced but lives cannot. I trust you are OK Sean?

[jch]

Scary stuff,Glad to hear your ok Sean

And we here in the UK moan about the weather!

[ozover50]

Wow!! That is indeed scary stuff, Sean.

We had a decent hail storm here last week but they were more the size of peas. Occasionally you get golf ball size ones in Sydney.

Fore!!

[scotty]

Scary stuff,Glad to hear your ok Sean

And we here in the UK moan about the weather!

We hear in the U.K love a good moan. Its what makes us British Altho john you may think of yourself as Irish and i may be Scottish? This could lead on to a good couple of jokes but ill stop here...
Glad you are well Sean but being a bit of a Pickup fan i was sorry your truck was damaged. At least its only metal and no real harm was done to you and you family)

[beatlefreak]

About a month ago, we had a series of severe storms move through this area in Georgia. While my area was realtively lucky (we got quarter sized hail for about five minutes), some areas east of us reported hail up to 4 1/2" across! They showed a guy on the local news holding one of the hailstones.

[jps]

Glad you are okay, Sean. Sounds like a tornado may have been in the making. I went through something similar about 15 years ago; not fun but definitely interesting at the same time.

[qwezirider]

Hail...green skies....rumbling train noise....yup, sound tornado-ish alright. A good thing to be on the edge of and not closer!

We woke up one night years ago to a similar storm. I peeked out the window to see the rain at street level going horizontal one way and horizontal the opposite direction 30 feet up. Spooky stuff...especially when the neighbor two houses down has a tree in the front yard twisted off - not snapped - halfway up the trunk.