hailstorm

i havent been blogging. i keep wanting to blog, but i have absolutely nothing to blog about. it happens time to time. not that i'm lazy, but when there's nothing worth blogging, i juz dont. u readers would hav noticed when i blog a lot, i really blog a lot. so this is like the opposite.

anyway, got a shock today. as i was watching king of queens, ogling at leah remini, the show was interrupted for emergency warning alert, something which was surprising when i first came here, but eventually got used to. it was a warning for thuderstorm and potential tornado.

a tornado hit iowa recently, which isnt too far. n if im not wrong, another huge one in nebraska. iowa was hit quite badly. its the midwest thing, a lot of winds, its been raining continuously for the past few days. and a pretty heavy one at that.

so i looked outside, mainly at the back porch of the house. it was weird, its one of those evening, but still pretty bright rain. a little too bright to be raining. ive always wanted to use a manual camera and capture the odd colour of the sky on these occasions. as i was looking around, i noticed bits and pieces of white solid bouncing on the wood of the back porch.

hails.

they were popping like someone who was sitting on the roof was throwing tons of mentos down. it was like rain, the bits bouncing and making noise. real scary, especially when i saw some size of 10 cent coins just dropping on the ground. the rain got heavier and the hails soon subsided, but the numerous hails were left like it was for birds to play on.

and i just imagined how it would be like if i were walkin outside with an umbrella and those things hit you. it must be oh so painful. you could get a bad bruise easily.

another experience of the mid west. first, i thought the strong winds were bad. then came the thunderstorms, then this.

what's next. an actual tornado? i really hope not, because that's scary.

it was only the second time that i recall where shows were interrupted to update viewers of potential tornadoes by the local news channels.