Messin’ with Texas

Well today’s weather was a little crazy so I took a few videos. As you will see in the videos some of the hail stones were as big as my thumb nail. It lasted about twenty minutes and it got really freaking cold during the storm. Our basement flooded (also in the video) and a bunch of branches got broken. It was pretty cool!

The first video is when it first started. It went few a few minutes, died down and then came back again.

The second video is just more like the first one. I am running around the house taking shots from different rooms. This is during the second round of hailing.

The third video has my basement flooding from a waterfall through an open window. Looks pretty cool. Made a huge mess.

In this video, the fourth video, I run outside to collect some ice pellets for gin and tonics. After all if god gives you lemons… in this case he gave us ice, and we already had the gin and tonic water.

After the hail storm, I did a bit of digging around and apparently you can buy what is called a hail cannon that is supposed to prevent hail from forming in the atmosphere. Check it out, it’s pretty cool!

http://www.hailcannon.com/

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Later in the evening I took these photos and this video of what was a double water spout forming over Long Island Sound. A third one nearly formed but dissipated. Of course lots of idiots with boats went straight into the heart of the storm (I probably would have done the same if I had a boat).

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