fun w/ midwestern summer storms...Hail & Lightning

[Stig / Major Tom]

Yesterday daughter and I out for errands and coffee downtown, cut it a little too close when storm clouds moved in.
No worries - I got wet - she nearly died to hear her tell it. ("I just washed my hair!" --- yeah, that one I didn't get)
But on the way home the heavy rain became increasingly laced with hail - growing in size to the point I worried for the windscreen. I had her pull off the road and under a wide, bushy tree. It was really drumming on the truck! Her 1st experience in hail in a vehicle.

As usual - the hail only lasted a few minutes.  No apparent damage to the truck. Or to the Mrs's car when she came home shortly thereafter.


At 5:45AM today took the pup for a couple of miles at the reservoir....only 20% chance of rain.
Halfway back to the truck she pointed and said, "here comes that 20%..."
OK, we cut that a little too close.
Lightning is not her favorite thing - and we made it to the picnic shelter in a driving rain. While waiting there - big nearby trees were struck 3 times.



I let her drive home to try to make it up to her.

Stig

[CROSSBOLT]

My three and a half years in Kansas in the early to mid 60's do not recall any memorable t'storms. Have had PLENTY in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee!

Thunderstorms are definitely a threat!

[Kansas kymco]

My three and a half years in Kansas in the early to mid 60's do not recall any memorable t'storms. Have had PLENTY in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee!

Thunderstorms are definitely a threat!

Just had a bad hail storm about a month ago. Insurance company totaled my Travel trailer.  Had a couple of friends that had significant damage. Rod had $48,000.  damage and Chris had $23,000 damage to their  homes. 

[aschrauth]

we had some pretty bad winds on August thirteenth, No hail that I can recall, It rained like a monsoon where I live though.

[Stig / Major Tom]

Will be riding, not dog walking, tomorrow morning.  20% chance of rain😊
Stig

[rjs987]

I've only been on a bike a few times in hail. Once on my Gold Wing. I was also riding that same GW through a wall of 50 mph wind... 90 deg broadside... with my wife on the back seat! That GW was leaned over like I was blasting through a hairpin turn at twice the recommended speed but we were going straight ahead. Not quite enough to scrape pegs. Though that would have been really weird, scraping pegs while riding straight ahead. I've also been on a bike through torrential rain so hard the cars were pulling off under Interstate over passes but I kept going since the fairing blew most of it away... until the line of traffic forced me to stop. I was also riding home from a camping trip on my CTX1300 when I ran into another torrential downpour and then found out there was a tornado within 5 miles of where I was.

Yeah, lots of fun stuff.