Hail? To The...

Last night Trent and I went out for my birthday dinner...yep, my one chance a year to have good sea food. Let's just say Trent is a big fan of their chicken! While waiting... and waiting... and getting familiar with the lady next to me with her cute daughter and sweet family... and her spiel about her thriving"Slumber Party" business...yeah, can you see the bishops wife throwing one of those lingerie parties???...well, the weather turned a bit scary!

This is a picture from the local news, of one of the earlier storms in Newnan. Looks beautiful, and...fluffy! But it dumped quite a bit of gravel-sized hail and the wind was all scary-like. Of course we are hoping everyone at home is alright. So during dinner (we were skipped from being seated and watched the hail from the waiting area) we called the house and consoled Tarin and Raegan from the thunder that was now hitting them. Then about 20 minutes later, the next storm hit and the same routine of hail and lighting hit. (Personally, I love to watch all of it, but when kids are on the mind, it's not as peaceful.)

After a bit of shopping, we made our way home, and found ourselves in another wave of thunderstorms. It was spectacular watching all the lighting slice its' way through the sky, until it struck close to our truck. We were driving down 34, passing the YMCA toward home, and literally 50 ft from our truck, lightning hit a transformer and threw sparks everywhere! Wow, that was amazing and scary all at the same time!

This morning, the kids wanted to show me the hail that was still left in the yard. I'm sure it melted a lot, but here is what I found. Much of it sticking together, but in big globs.

Raegan thought hers was the biggest of all ;o)

Last I checked Easter is tomorrow...so that makes this APRIL! And we are still getting snow flurries (last wednesday) and hail! Al Gore, would have plenty to say...