Yesterday on Lunch break, I stopped at the gas station to get diesel. While pulling in I seen a somewhat well-known storm chaser. I rolled down the window and hollered out "Hey Tim....I'd love to say I'm glad to see you but that'd be a lie"....then rolled the window back up and went on about my business.
yeah the hail last night was terrible!
At the shop, the enclosed trailer (which is new, and we just had it wrapped) took a good beating. The roof and a/c unit are fine. The side looks like it was hit by a shotgun about a zillion times. It is trashed. 250 gallon oil tote, has holes all in the side of it-from the hail. Overhead door ripped off/destroyed. Hail hit at about 2100 last night and I got to the shop at 0700 this morning and there was still hail on the ground, looked like snow.
second worst hail storm I've ever seen in my life, worst was when i lived in nebraska and as a kid. In school, we got told that a storm was coming. It wasn't tornadic (yet) so we just stayed in for recess rather than going outside. I looked out the window to see hailstones the size of tennis balls falling; windshields in cars in the parking lot shattering, falling in, back windows on the fastbacks just blowing out. It lasted for over an hour and by time it finally subsided every single car in the lot was totally demolished, there were pock marks in the blacktop, the roof--destroyed, air conditioner, junk (leaking freon), and the ground was covered in hail that looked like piles and piles of baseballs. I don't remember what year it was but I do remember having to walk home, in a tornado warning. Cars weren't going anywhere and the bus didn't run to the house.
Right now it's not too bad here, all the storms are mostly along the river from Monroe up to Memphrica and maybe on up into Paducah area. But that may change during the night according to the weather ladies. Tomorrow might get really interesting.
I was out chasing a little last night. I used to do it it semi-professionally, had to quit because it is an addiction and it costs a lot of money. it's like a drug.
couple pics. One of the back of the one trailer, the other ones are also trashed the same way but on the sides rather than the ramp door. And the other from last night's "chase".
