Hailing

Some as big as marbles.  Most a bit smaller.  It’s lasting longer than one might have expected, maybe 2 minutes so far.  Now it’s coming down faster.  Bigger than marbles now.  It’s loud.  Funny, it is still hot and a bit muggy.  Now it’s been coming down for something like 5 minutes.  Now we’re getting huge splats of water too.  It’s a bit quieter now.  Hmm.  Looks like we have some drainage issues: our back patio is turning into a chipmunk sized swimming pool.

It’s been about 10 or so minutes now and the rain is still pouring down but the hail has stopped.  I had to go recover a screen that had fallen from a window and got to walk through the chipmunk pool.  The water was warmer than a pool and cooler than a jacuzzi.

We were planning on having 8 adults and 17 kids over here.  Now that we won’t be going outside we cut things back a bit.  One family that was going to come was going to bring 8.  (They are babysitting for a family with 5 kids.)  Anyway, we rescheduled with them for next week.  Nine kids we can handle indoors for a couple of hours.  Now it’s slowing down.  Hmm: looks like we need to clear out some rain gutters.