I just checked WeatherBug radar and SE Nebraska has a DOOZY moving over it!  It looks like Iowa is next.  If you see funnel clouds, the HECK with us!  GET IN THE BASEMENT, DORTHY!

Well then, I am glad that I am here and not anywhere near there. We have hazy sunshine here. 

I had yesterday off to go the dentist and went swimming afterwards.  Was just swimming along and looked over the west and there was this huge black cloud coming fast.  I got out just before the rain and lightning broke loose.  The winds turned over a tractor trailer in the Wal-Mart parking lot about a half hour from where I live.  My mom and dad finally got electricity at 4 a.m. this morning.  Of course, my mom is German and they don't have those kinds of storms and she hates it when she can't see the weather when the electricity is out (because she wants to know if she has to run to the basement), so she had my dad install a generator for when the electricity goes out.  People were driving by their house last night and just stopped and stared because they were the only one with lights in the whole hollow (or holler as the call it 'round here).  I bet the electric company got more than a few calls wondering why my mom and dad had electricity and they didn't.   

It's over now and the sun is shining. lol

My wife called from work (about 1 mile away) and said It's hailing here. I stepped outside, "no, nothing here". As I was talking to her, I could hear it coming as it started hitting my neighbor's roof about 200 yards away.

I see a few dents in my van but I don't care about it. I wonder what my wife's car looks like though.




I now return you to your regularly scheduled forum posts.

Wow, hope all your stuff is all right.  That is some huge hail.  Sorry to hear about that. 

holy crap!!!!! and i was worried about my car with the pea sized hail we had 2 days ago!

Wow, that stuff has to do some serious damage!!

That would freak some of these Floridians out!  But that's pretty much what I imagined when you said golf ball size.  Thanks for showing us.

Yeah, it was kind of neat . . . I've never heard anything quite like that before as it was coming. Once I heard a couple hit my own roof, I decided that maybe I better get my head back inside. Here at my shop, the insulation is all the way at the top against the roof. It sounded like gunshots going off in here. My dog was freakin' out.

I've sat through several large hail stormes in my pickup back when I was a storm chaser in Lincoln. This is the biggest hail I've ever heard hitting the roof though.

Ah, nuts . . I just checked the roof and don't see much damage. I was hoping the insurance company was going to have to replace my roof as it needs it anyway. I don't see much problem other than what was already there.

Yeah we have hail but nothing like that stuff Dovetails got yesterday, we get a very vaired weather climate here not just drizzle like everyone thinks, but we never really get extreme weather that much its always pretty musch standard stuff, a bit of rain or a bit of sun or a bit of snow!

yea! is it getting real windy down there??

  We've just been put under a watch , which begs the question ; is it possible to watch your own butt get blown away ?

  LOL LOL  gd 1 !!

Sorry Dave!  I forgot that your on the Gulf as well.  You and Star take that storm head-on!

DAVE FROM THE LEFT!  STAR FROM THE RIGHT!

PUSH BACK ARLENE, FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!