• Aug. 8, 2008
Hail stones keep falling on my head...
So, for our lack of snow last winter, God decided to make it up to us this summer. On July 22, in some areas around here there was actual snow on the ground - no joke. It goes to show you that anything is possible in Canada, as far as weather is concerned anyway.
We've been having the weirdest, craziest weather around here lately. On and off for the last few weeks he've been having hailstorms and sunny days. Usual it's half and a half...you'll look outside, and half the sky will be bright blue and the other half dark rain clouds. It's just really, really strange.
A couple of days ago we had this insane hailstorm. It started raining really hard at first around 5 o'clock, and half way through supper (6 o'clock) it started hailing and the electricity went off. And this hail was huge - some as wide as my fingernails and as thick around as my pinkey. I had put a cup outside when it started raining, to see how fast it would fill up (:P I know I'm weird), well now I had ice water! xD But seriously, the streets were flooding and plants were drowning, and Mom's wood chips from her garden were floating all around the back yard. (direct quote from Mom: "MY WOOD CHIPS!!!") Lightning flashed right in the neighbour behind us's yard, and it was LOUD! - Mom's head was pounding 5 minutes afterwards, apparently. It was pretty cool though. XD For a moment the whole room just looked like this :P :
Living around the corner from the hospital, sirens aren't an unusual sound at all, but we heard about 5 sirens within 45 minutes, which is needless to say more than usual. The newspaper said that that evening there was 9 accidents - most of them, I think, they said were due to trees falling on houses and cars, but they said that there was one car accident that was related to the weather, and there was a lot of flooding on the QEW which caused problems as you can imagine. :P Anyway, it all ended by about 7:30.
This really reminds me of what Hurricane Katrina was like, I mean the leftovers we got up here in Ontario. With the crazy raining and thunder and lightning, and all the accidents. The only difference is that it's not really windy at all, and it was REALLY windy with the hurricane leftovers.
I don't know what's up with this crazy weather or when it's going to stop. Today, I went to help with BINGO as I usually do on Fridays, and when I left it was as hot and sunny as anything. When I got out an hour and a half or so later, there were all dark rainclouds. Just as I got home it started to pour. Right now the sky is at that half and half.
I kinda wish God would save the snow for winter! ;)
