It's Raining, It's Pouring, It's Hailing

Last month we got hammered with this huge storm that came without warning. I knew we might get a storm but never imagined it would be of this magnitude. I was just about to put the kids down for their nap when the rain started. The kids looked out the front window to look at the rain. Then the hail came down and the wind was horrible. The hail was coming down vertically. It was hitting my windows so hard, I was scared they were going to break. I ran to the hall to make sure Bryce was ok...he slept through it all. I yelled for the kids in the front room to come to the hall while I kept on eye on my closet, where Bryce sleeps. Of course the kids were so excited watching the rain. So I ran into the front room and grabbed the kids and we all stood in the hallway waiting for the storm to pass, praying my windows wouldn't break. I couldn't even see out the front window by now because it was raining/hailing so hard and the rain was hitting the window. After what seemed forever, it slowed down and we went to check for damages. Thank goodness there wasn't any except our plants and trees were beaten up pretty bad from the hail. The trees lost tons of leaves and there was debris everywhere. When I went to the front door, there was water all in front of it. We have a tiny little gap from the bottom of the door and the floor. The wind was so bad it pushed the rain into our house.




Now, we Arizonans don't have hail storms very often, maybe every 5 or so years, so this was amazing.