It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood…

Well,

Today is the 2nd time in my life I have come out of a movie Theater to find a storm. The first time was during the movie a Perfect Storm and my city received about 14 inches of rain. I new the special effects in the movie were too good to be true! Today was the second. My sister and I came out of a “girly” movie staring McDreamy and we walk into a beautiful sun-shower. Not a big deal until we got in the car just in time not to be pellted in the head with hail. I have been stuck in a car before during downwinds but never hail. I felt my ears were going to start bleeding any second or the windows in the car were going to break., However, we made it home ok. Luckily I only live 5 minutes from the theater.

It hailed for about 10 minutes and once it was over we accessed the damage. Below are the pictures.

This is the front garden a few minutes ago it looked like a glass of coca-cola with crushed ice.

It completely shredded our cover for our fire pit.

A handful of them. Hard to believe such little pellets can shred nice things!

Whew! The rocks we planted last weekend are still fine! We are lucky!

As I look outside most of it hasn’t even melted yet and has been on the ground for about 45 minutes now. However, it isn’t the Perfect Storm!

For information on the perfect storm Eagan style visit here: http://www.thisweek-online.com/2000/july/14eflood.html

while the website isn’t written very well you can understand the destruction that was caused to the city that day. I just wish I had pictures.