Hail, yes!

[Guest]

We've had several tornado warnings this evening.

This appears to be a dangerous group of storms chaining together. Earlier there were a couple of tornadoes that actually touched down. But we were pretty lucky; they hit mostly farm areas and caused only minimal damage. The main cell has passed us now, and further activity appears to be staying well south and tracking due east.

BUT a fun side effect of dangerous tornadic activity is: Hail!

Golf-ball size hail - have you ever seen it?

Our back yard is currently full of huge pieces of the stuff. Looks like someone scattered Easter eggs all over the green grass.

Between storm fronts we gathered a large bowl of hail and put it in the freezer. (Our children are out of town with their grandparents but we know they'll want to see this when they get home.)

We had to cover our heads while picking up the hail, by the way. Ouch!

We looked around our neighborhood and saw lots of children picking up hail but I think we were the only adults.

SO - all is well, I'm back on computer since the lightning storm is gone, and we have a freezer full of Hail.

(Just call me Dorothy.)

 

[cantdog]

Tornadoes are so rare in Maine that a tornado path on a hillside, which had carved O J I into it in downed trees, caused the place to be named "Mount O J I." I am completely serious. It lacks the letters now, but for decades the trees were a different color from across the river.

We get hail in the leading edge of thunderstorms, though, and sometimes ping-pong or golf ball size, but more often smaller. Those things are painful, dent cars, and persist for a while even in pelting rain. Cool beans!

cantdog

 

[Guest]

We live in the middle of Tornado Row (we're in Lawrence, KS). Even little kids know what to do when the weather gets bad!

(But the hail? Yeah - cool beans!)

 

[cloudy]

I understand tornados and hail all too well. I live in the slice of Alabama known as Tornado Alley.

Our season's just about over now. They hit here more in early spring. And yes, we have a basement!

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Tornadoes are so rare in Maine that a tornado path on a hillside, which had carved O J I into it in downed trees, caused the place to be named "Mount O J I." I am completely serious. It lacks the letters now, but for decades the trees were a different color from across the river.

We get hail in the leading edge of thunderstorms, though, and sometimes ping-pong or golf ball size, but more often smaller. Those things are painful, dent cars, and persist for a while even in pelting rain. Cool beans!

cantdog

I climbed OJI a few years back. But I thought it was rockslides.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I hope your kids are back soon. I once saved a snowball in our freezer thinking it would be cool to take it out in July and hit someone with it, but by then it had almost entirely evaporated and was smaller than an ice cube.

---dr.M.

 

[MathGirl]

I once saved a snowball ...

Dear Dr M,
What's a snowball?
Californiacally,
MG

 

[Guest]

Dear Dr M,
What's a snowball?
Californiacally,
MG

That would be two or more girls sucking the sperm off a cock and pass it around from mouth to mouth.

Guys never do this sort of thing.

-- dr.m.