Beaten Like a Rented Mule
Well we were the red headed step child of mother nature today. We got on the tornado warned storm in northwest Missouri. It had good structure and was becoming organized. The tornado warning had just come out for it so I knew we were in good shape. The side/dirt roads suck up there by the way. Well then out of no where baseball and softball hail starts falling around us. There was just a few up front so we jumped in the truck to leave and then it quickly picked up. I’ve seen baseball and softabll hail before, but I’ve never seen it in high volumes like this. Usually the hail is sparse when it’s big. With this storm there was baseball hail covering the ground.
I told Eric drive south and east so we are trying to out run the storm because it was move east north east, but the hail kept getting worse. Well what happend is that literallly right as I parked to get out and watch the storm it right turned. Not a regular right turn but a 90 degree right turn and started moving south southeast. So instead of running and getting out of the hail we were keeping ourselve in it. There was some monter hail stones in there. Here is a link to pictures on my web page of the windshield http://www.loadedgunchasing.com/
It was just an unfortunate set of curcumstances. I don’t feel like I did anything wrong. I was watching the storm, we were several miles from a dry mesocyclone and then huge hail starts falling. Who in the hell is going to know that? It sucks tremendously, but at the same time it was an awesome experience to see the power of these storms. You feel totally helpless with hail that big falling all around you. There is no place to go and it is extremely violent. I’ll get the video up on the site for you to see.
