Hail

This past weekend has been filled with thundershowers, wildly swinging temperatures and some of the biggest hail I’ve ever seen.  From the normal pea size hail that is often seen to gargantuan hunks of ice the size of a frozen tennis ball. Most were about the size of a golf ball and rather damaging.

We happened to be on our way home when the hail began and as the pinging sound of hail grew into bangs it became a little nerve wracking.  We made it home safely albeit a little slower than usual and the hail and rain stopped shortly after.

We went outside afterward to take a look at the hailstones and we knew there would be some big ones but there were some HUGE ones.  Quite literally the size of my palm.  It was too dark out to see what if any damage the house or truck had received and so we waited until morning.

Come morning we looked around the yard, the gazebos canvas top made it although it clearly came close to giving way and needed to be straightened out. The deck and yard was littered in leaves and branches, many flowers have broken stems or are outright flattened but more damage was yet to be seen.

The truck does have numerous dents which will need to be fixed.  Thankfully the car was safely tucked away in the garage and it’s not both vehicles now in need of a repair.  I also realize after seeing the size of hail in our yard that were lucky no glass was cracked on top of the dents.

Our roof also did not fair very well against the hail and numerous shingles have some obvious damage, not sure if it will be enough to claim but a new roof is likely in our near future.  Now the eaves they’re going to need replacing without a shadow of a doubt.  The hail managed to break a few holes right through them.  I know they’re plastic but still that must have been some hailstone.

In the end it was just another storm but this one will take a while to clean up from, if it ever actually stops raining for more than 10 minutes at a time.  

Mental Hiatus.

Ok what the hell my mind has decided to take a hiatus on me. I have the attention span of a gnat.  My mind keeps skipping around from one thing to another. 

It may be a response to the absolutely gorgeous day outside and my desire to be anywhere but at my computer even for the time it takes to write a short blog.  It is warm and sunny with a nice breeze carrying the scents of spring.

It’s a perfect day to go and fly a kite and today may be the only chance this weekend.  It’s predicted to be a cold and wet one, we may even be facing a bit of snow on Sunday.  It’s May 1^st on Sunday, snow and May do not belong in the same sentence.

I may very well have a minor breakdown if we do see snow on Sunday I’ve had quite enough of it this year thank you very much.  I must admit I did not however expect this beautiful weather to make it through to the weekend after all the first soccer game of the season is this Saturday.

Soccer season always seems to kick off with a wet and cold day it seems to be a bit of a tradition.  It doesn’t matter how early or late spring came or how nice it’s been leading up to that first game we have to be prepared to freeze our asses off and get a little wet.

It’s always quite an interesting look when the girls are forced to wear sweaters and tights under their jerseys and shorts.   I have to admit the very slippery wet and muddy grass we always seem to have for game one really helps them break in their new uniforms fast. 

I may well be getting the cart ahead of the horse here seeing as our local meteorologists seem to have a hard time telling current temperatures never mind future weather but we will see. Either way I think I'm going to get out the golf umbrella.