They did report strong thunderstorms yesterday afternoon. All of the Southern Tier was looking forward to the break in weather since the temperature has been pushing the high-90s. In these parts of the north, air conditioning is rare and central air is unheard of (except for mwah whose is not working correctly at the moment). What they didn't forecast was the marble-sized hail, the temperature dropping 20 degrees and the fact that my 10-year-young roof would be leaking all within 15 minutes.Generous person that I am, I forced both my children outside to gather a handful of the evidence so I could share with you and plop it into the freezer to show Hero Guy so that he would actually believe me. Only one of my children whimpered something about getting struck by lightening or bonked on the head by an ice ball. I assured him that I would quickly drag him back in the house by his feet if that happened. Five minutes down the road, Hero Guy lost power at work and got the rain, but none of the icy stuff. He declared the hail was quarter-size when he peered at it inside our freezer, but the most accurate description is that it was almost exactly the size and shape of the flat-bottomed glass marbles you decorate vases and fish tanks with. Amazingly, the van didn't get dented, although I would have rathered that than the dripping I heard from the slanted ceiling.
HyperDog, of course, was out on the balcony, yipping wildly at the thunder. MonsterPaws was hiding in the back of the closet. 20 minutes after it started, it stopped and today is sunny, breezy and just downright heavenly.
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When we left to pick him up, the weather was fine, as soon as we hit Main St. in Endicott...I couldn't see a thing! Scariest storm!
GREAT pix!
~Sue