Blustery Days... A show and tell

Friday was a sad and scary day for a lot of people. We were not in the town most affected, but we do not live far away from it. Hubby and I spent a very tense half hour crouched in the bathtub with the pups and a radio as the storm raged by us. Since living here, there have been several scary weather situations, but we have never felt the need to take cover like we did on Friday. Nature was out in full force making sure that everyone could feel her raw power.

It breaks my heart to see the pictures of uprooted lives continuously flashed across the television. My prayers and thoughts go out to everyone affected by the storms Friday.

I am one of those crazies that loves to go out and take pictures of menacing weather. To my dismay, one of my coworkers had borrowed the memory card from my fancy schmancy camera to work on a project this weekend. My little camera has always been wonderful to me, but since getting my new one, it feels grotesquely inadequate. Still, here's a few pics. I didn't feel as brave as normal with this storm and I ducked back in the house long before the worst of it hit.

This was not the worst of the hail but it gives you a good idea of how much there was. About thirty seconds after this pic was taken, the hail started flying sideways onto our balcony. I decided that being knocked out by a golf ball of ice wasn't a very safe thing to do.

This was taken before the hail moved in.

This was taken after the storm moved out. If you look at the trees, you can see that this is almost identical to the previous picture (minus, of course, the storm). It was taken not even an hour after the previous one.

Just to give you an idea of the wind, this was taken after the storm had moved on. We stayed under a tornado watch until around seven that night. The power of the wind was unbelievable!