HAIL?!?!

So this past weekend we in Connecticut had quite a wake-up call when it came to the weather. On Thursday we were idling around the house, like any normal rainy day (or not rainy day, as it happens at my house) when my Dad called from work to tell us that we had a tornado warning. My Mom and I quickly ran up from downstairs and turned on the tv to find that this was true. Almost immediately the weather became increasingly worse and it started to hail. Not just some nancy pussy footing hail either. they were about 1/8th of an inch thick, big enough to tear apart my mom's pumpkin plant leaves and hostas.

Well, the storm went on, along with the tornado warning, for about a half an hour until the rain died down. Our pool looked like the hidden city of Atlantis was brewing underneath, our backyard turned into a menacing swamp, and our driveway had two inches of rainwater above it. With reports of funnel clouds touching down in the town next to us, we were very lucky that it wasn't any worse than that.

Of course, the next day my mom, sister and I went to the doctor's office, leaving my brother at home. Yet again, the weather was playing tricks with us, and my brother called us in a panic. There were severe thunder storm warnings and another batch of hail to completely ruin my mother's plants in the front yard.

And the moral of the story is to keep your roof in good anti-hail condition, cause ours started to leak.