Crazy Hail

I packed the kids up, after doing 30 minutes of cutting grass, and then shooting 3 podcasts outside in the cloudy weather. We drove to Southlands to get my credit card. I'd left it at the restaurant on Sunday, and needed to pick it up. As we drove, it started raining.

Then hailing.

It was really coming down when we got there, and I ended up going in alone to get it. Kendall almost always comes with me, but it was raining too hard. I got it and we headed West. The restaurant is North of our house, and we needed to go to Blockbuster, which is East, so we were making a big rectangle to get there. As we got into Aurora, it stopped raining, and the roads were even pretty dry.

However we turned South to go into Parker and it started up again, hard hail leaving quarter sized hail on the truck. We got to Blockbuster, and raced in, Kendall commenting how it was raining "so hard!" It actually rained, lightening, and thundered so hard the Blockbuster computers died.

Next we stopped to grab food, but it was so flooded in places, almost a foot a few times, and still coming down. We made it, but I declined to hit the grocery store. Tia was down in Castle Rock, and it was clear down there, so I called her and asked her to stop.

By the time we'd driven 7 miles toward home, the rain had stopped, and it was barely wet at the house, no puddles anywhere. And we could have used the rain!