Fairfield Glade, Tennessee. February 18, 2009.
Mother Nature put on quite a show here in the Glade yesterday. We had rain when Betsy and I made our weekly run to the grocery stores in the morning. The rain was steady, but not too hard. However, shortly after we got home, the sky got darker and the tornado-warning sirens went off. A few minutes later it started to rain and hail. That’s when I took the picture above from our small front porch.
I stayed on the porch for a few minutes to watch the rain and hail and to see if the water was washing away parts of the rose beds (it wasn’t). The hail seemed to come in waves — lots of hail for a minute, no hail at all, and then lots of hail again. As is usually the case, the hail was mostly small pieces of ice — less than about a quarter-inch in size.
A large piece of hail. February 18, 2009.
I was about to go back into the house when I heard a ‘thud’ above my head and this large chunk of ice (right) bounced off the roof and landed on the driveway. I was quite surprised by the size and by the fact that I only saw one piece ice that large.
I was also very glad that I had a roof over my head at that moment!
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