Showing posts with label 1st rain storm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1st rain storm. Show all posts

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Our 1st Manhattan T-Storm

On Wednesday, June 25th T-Storm warnings were all over the tv. I was home alone waiting for Travis to get home from work. I am not going to lie, I was a little frightened by the news, I just didn't want the storms to turn into another Tornado. Luckily, Travis got home around 6pm and the storm hadn't hit yet.

About 7:30pm thunder and lighting lit up the sky of our balcony... it actually was pretty sweet - it wasn't colorful like Arizonas', but it definately was the loudest thunder I had ever heard (it rattles everything). We had never seen a sky like it before, a huge black cloud was covering our entire apartment complex. Then without any warning rain started beating down (I am talking a down pour). It was about 85 degrees with 70% humidity - how is that possible, right?
Within minutes the rain turned to hail droplets, which turned into hail balls (as I called them) about the size of a quarter, shooting down in all directions. Travis was worried that they were going to do some damage to our vehicles, but they didn't.
After about an hour of sitting on our balcony, amazed by what we were seeing - it stopped suddenly and all was humid and calm again.