Fire and Ice Friday

	This was a nasty storm, worst hail storm I have seen in a while. We started out by taking the boat out Friday afternoon. It was a beautiful day out, blue sky, warm temp, and not too many boaters. Joe called and asked if we wanted to come over, he was gonna have a fire. We headed over there around 8:00. Leaving the Bend we noticed a large thunderhead moving out of the west. Looked like a typical rain cloud but it was pretty damn big. Deaton showed up who is also a meteorologist, he assured us it would miss us. No one knew what the weather radar looked like, I called up to get the low down, not much could be determined. Around 9:00 Joe and I were talking and I asked what that freight train noise was, it sort of startled me because it sounded tornado-esque.
	Everyone was jabbering and all of a sudden it hit. We all split pretty quick, Steve Levi and I went for the truck. Joe and Keith headed for the bus. Levi and I soon the bus was much safer. We bailed out the side door and I grabbed Gunny to head for the bus. Steve was too slow in getting out and got trapped. Right as my foot was stepping in the door the hail came. It was immense! There were golf ball size hail coming down on the bus. The windows were holding up but the hail kept coming down. It was insane the amount of ice raining down on us. For about 20-30 minutes the hail pounded the bus. Then it let up and it was the rain. About 15 mins after that it was gone. Steve's hood was thrashed, the jetta was beat to hell and I realized that I had left all the windows open in the house.
	Steve and I left for the house to check on things, driving out of Drapers we could see the damage. Trees were down and leaves were everywhere. Coming home we could see the damage getting worse, our area got it worse than others. Our driveway was washed out in the middle. Everyone of our oak trees were stripped of their leaves. 5 of my solar lights were busted, one window in the bedroom had been broken. The bunker storage shed had holes thru the roof. It was a disaster area for sure. The whole property was covered in leaves. I went to bed after seeing all that.
	The next morning I slept late, did some stuff here and there and boarded up windows. It kept raining off an on the whole day and into the night. I guess one rainstorm wasn't enough. The next morning I headed over to Nelson's and dropped off some tools I borrowed. Cleared some trees for him then headed back to our house for cleanup. Liz and I raked leaves for about four hours. I started building a garden. Gunny sat and got a tan all day. It was a crazy 3 days. As always remove /thumbs from the URL to get the big pic.