Andy can be very mean!
He chose to ignore me, after giving me the claw!
“Douglas is gone, vanished when I turn my head!”
Zzzzzz….
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Hail that fell in Scottsbluff, Nebraska on 23 June 2023, photo posted by Ann Salomon
We are getting the June-typical weather this week and next! Tornado alerts – I slept through one during the most recent one – and thunder and lightning accompanying gully washer rainstorms happen nearly daily! Hail with these storms fills your palm and you wish you lived underground. Andy handles the racket unexpectedly well, though lightning strikes nearby produce thunder that rattles the windows, the most “kool” kitty, and me.
While the cooler weather that comes from these storms is welcome, the potential for major damage to possessions is tedious reality.
Remember those shiftless pioneers from a few blog posts ago? Crossing the prairie in the 1800s and getting caught in one of these storms must have been enough to send some back to Ohio and other places east!
I’ve been in one in a car where day turned to darkest night, all traffic had to stop by the roadside to wait out the storm, and the pounding rain roared down on the car with such intensity the car rocked. Very frightening!
WOW – that is some hailstone! I’ve been amid hurricanes (back east) and some terrific thunderstorms, but no hail THAT big!
Cats love to ignore us humans and then fall asleep and snore! 🙂
I think hurricanes would be more frightening, especially those slow-moving ones because they are more like tornadoes from Hell!
I have been through one tornado with Rick in the Badlands of South Dakota, but that is a long story. Both types are hell.
Tornados, at least, even slow-moving ones, come and go faster, but I’d agree one doesn’t want to experience one.
That’s some HAIL!
i hate this part of the wet season. I have modest damage to my car from one hailstorm that had much smaller hail. It’s a big problem in this area. We are a winter wheat-growing area and north of her, one year in five (more or less) the harvesting time for wheat coincides with a major hailstorm wiping the fields out.
I could never even imagine anything like that.
Crop insurance is available to them. I hope they take advantage of it, though it surely is expensive, given the actuarial evaluation of the probability of it happening.
You have an interesting climate there!
It is something else, I agree!
It is certainly not boring.
He is too funny. That is some big hail.
Naughty kitty clawing Doug! I saw that storm in Scottsbluff the other day on the weather channel as it was happening and thought about you, Doug. Scary stuff! I’m glad that you two are okay.
Scottsbluff is 57 miles away by highway, but closer as the crow flies. What happens there, southwest of Alliance, often ends up a few minutes later happening here.
I see, stay safe Doug! 🙏🏻🤙🏻
We made it without the heavy hail.
Great news! 🤙🏻
Moody kitty … Serious hailstone there. We’re getting bad storms today, bleh. After surviving an EF4 in 2011, we avoid being out in them. Still have PTSD.
That is, we avoid being out during any time span with a prediction of possible severe weather.
That’s best.
I can imagine. They are huge and destructive storms that reduce one to nothing in seconds.
It is NOT EASY TO BE GREEN BUT FOR ME IT IS EASY TO BE MEAN. YOU GO ANDY and PROTECT THE CLAW! It comes in handy..
He does!
Those are some storms
Scary, I guarantee!