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fantastic_jackie) wrote2008-04-18 09:37 am
fantastic_jackie) wrote2008-04-18 09:37 am
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Report on the Hail Storms
So yesterday, my headache got so bad that I had to leave work and go to the local doctor. Said doctor refused to treat me. No, I'm not kidding.
This morning, I still have the headache.
But enough on that; I'll eventually pursue it - probably tomorrow, at which point the infection will have only gotten worse over the extra two days.
Has the news been reporting anything about the massive hail storms we Texans received last night? It looks like a war zone here!!
Here in Hometown, we went from pea-sized to dime-sized to nickel-sized to grape-sized. There were a few quarter-sized pieces (and when I say few, remember I'm referring to a storm. lol), but we didn't get hit as bad as many places north of us. Reports went from golf ball-sized to even baseball-sized hail!
The bro and I went out after the storm in search of pizza. The search was fruitless, but the... er... minor devastation was incredible! Mist covered the roadways like some eerie horror movie from the sudden hot contrast to the ice that littered the ground. The trees and flowers and even grass has been shreded. Everything was covered in bits of leaves, grass, and little clumps of mud. And 'round here, parts of the asphalt streets have been kicked up and eroded away, pebbles scattered across the roadways. And we only got grape sized!
My camera's dead and out of room for piccies, but I do have some pics of the storm from last night.
This is up against our garage. The hail pretty much pounded in one direction, so we had bits of accumulation on this side of the house. You can see a little bit of the shredded grass and twigs here that were torn off the trees.
Still in front of our house, this is the flower bed. - Rather a little part of it. It went across this deep around the entire stretch of the house. They got burred alive after being ripped apart. :(
Of course, imagine this amount of accumulation doubled across an entire parking lot, and you'd have an idea of what the local Pizza Hut looked like. No joke! And it was practically clear everywhere else! This one SUV got stuck in the 6 inches of the stuff!!!
From the front door of our house. No, we didn't sweep anything. ;) You can see up to the grape sizes here. It seems, though, that we got hit worse in the back than we did in the front....
This is what you call a lucky shot. The problem I had with geting anything was the fact that it was at night with no light, and it was still raining. I took this the moment the entire sky lit up with an enormous bolt of lightning. As you can see, it looks like it snowed in our backyard - except you wouldn't have wanted to be out there when it happened. ;) It goes about an inch deep out there in this pic, and this is the side that we got the quarter-sized pieces. The only flowers that survived were our bluebonnets!! (YEAH! TEXAS TOUGH! XD)
Minni, Jezebel, and Mr & Mrs Bird freaked out. I had Minni, Kidd had Jezebel, and the Birds my bro put in the bathroom so they'd be more protected - which they liked because there was a big mirror. ^^ I ran around with my bro unplugging everything in the house. And... OH!!! Something I couldn't get a picture of was the flash flood on our street!!
The entire street was filled with rushing, frothing water. It was still hailing and pouring at this point, but it was incredible! Our street is wide enough for three cars to pass each other with a bit of breathing room, so you can imagine how wide this little river was! And it was deep! Deep enough to be overlapping the curb in a few rough spots - like miniature rapids!
Anyway, that's my report. Cars are, miraculously all right! I've decided that since I live in Texas, I should probably keep a storm journal, so this'll count for my second '08 entry. ;)
You know how people will bounce you around to different people or departments because "It's not my job"? Well, that's what happened. I told her my neck hurt from the headache, and I refused to turn my head because it would apply pressure to my head/neck, so she determined from that that I could have menangitis because severe neck pain with a fever is a first sign. I needed to go to the ER, she said, so that they could run the proper tests. No amount of arguing that I know this is a sinus infection nor that I had no fever nor that it was remotely related to my neck aside from the fact that my head is attached to it would budge her. My head hurt too much to push it any further, and the storm was coming in, so I told her which hospital to fax the documentation to, asked for the note for work, and drove straight home.
This morning, I still have the headache.
But enough on that; I'll eventually pursue it - probably tomorrow, at which point the infection will have only gotten worse over the extra two days.
Has the news been reporting anything about the massive hail storms we Texans received last night? It looks like a war zone here!!
Here in Hometown, we went from pea-sized to dime-sized to nickel-sized to grape-sized. There were a few quarter-sized pieces (and when I say few, remember I'm referring to a storm. lol), but we didn't get hit as bad as many places north of us. Reports went from golf ball-sized to even baseball-sized hail!
The bro and I went out after the storm in search of pizza. The search was fruitless, but the... er... minor devastation was incredible! Mist covered the roadways like some eerie horror movie from the sudden hot contrast to the ice that littered the ground. The trees and flowers and even grass has been shreded. Everything was covered in bits of leaves, grass, and little clumps of mud. And 'round here, parts of the asphalt streets have been kicked up and eroded away, pebbles scattered across the roadways. And we only got grape sized!
My camera's dead and out of room for piccies, but I do have some pics of the storm from last night.
This is up against our garage. The hail pretty much pounded in one direction, so we had bits of accumulation on this side of the house. You can see a little bit of the shredded grass and twigs here that were torn off the trees.
Still in front of our house, this is the flower bed. - Rather a little part of it. It went across this deep around the entire stretch of the house. They got burred alive after being ripped apart. :(
Of course, imagine this amount of accumulation doubled across an entire parking lot, and you'd have an idea of what the local Pizza Hut looked like. No joke! And it was practically clear everywhere else! This one SUV got stuck in the 6 inches of the stuff!!!
From the front door of our house. No, we didn't sweep anything. ;) You can see up to the grape sizes here. It seems, though, that we got hit worse in the back than we did in the front....
This is what you call a lucky shot. The problem I had with geting anything was the fact that it was at night with no light, and it was still raining. I took this the moment the entire sky lit up with an enormous bolt of lightning. As you can see, it looks like it snowed in our backyard - except you wouldn't have wanted to be out there when it happened. ;) It goes about an inch deep out there in this pic, and this is the side that we got the quarter-sized pieces. The only flowers that survived were our bluebonnets!! (YEAH! TEXAS TOUGH! XD)
Minni, Jezebel, and Mr & Mrs Bird freaked out. I had Minni, Kidd had Jezebel, and the Birds my bro put in the bathroom so they'd be more protected - which they liked because there was a big mirror. ^^ I ran around with my bro unplugging everything in the house. And... OH!!! Something I couldn't get a picture of was the flash flood on our street!!
The entire street was filled with rushing, frothing water. It was still hailing and pouring at this point, but it was incredible! Our street is wide enough for three cars to pass each other with a bit of breathing room, so you can imagine how wide this little river was! And it was deep! Deep enough to be overlapping the curb in a few rough spots - like miniature rapids!
Anyway, that's my report. Cars are, miraculously all right! I've decided that since I live in Texas, I should probably keep a storm journal, so this'll count for my second '08 entry. ;)