There's a short video of the storm we're discussing on my flickr page.
( Edit: Here's a local news channel's report on this storm. )
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| Me: | you there? | 12:20:30 PM |
| Friend: | yeppers | 12:22:00 PM |
| Me: | where'd this thunderstorm come from? | 12:22:17 PM |
| Friend: | thers a storm? | 12:22:23 PM |
| Me: | it was beautiful when I left[*]. Not a cloud in the sky. | 12:22:33 PM |
| Now lightning and small red squirrels fleeign for cover | 12:22:46 PM | |
| Friend: | fun! | 12:22:52 PM |
| Me: | hey... that sounds like hail | 12:27:36 PM |
| peekign outside | 12:27:42 PM | |
| oh yeah, that's hail alright | 12:27:58 PM | |
| blocks of ice falling from the sky in loud fashion | 12:28:12 PM | |
| in big chunks | 12:28:29 PM | |
| ok, hail stopped. raining now | 12:31:46 PM | |
| not so big. lima bean sized | 12:32:03 PM | |
| Friend: | uh oh | 12:32:15 PM |
| on its way? | 12:32:25 PM | |
| Me: | only did it for about 2 mins | 12:32:28 PM |
| Friend: | ok | 12:32:32 PM |
| Me: | lemme look at the radar | 12:32:32 PM |
| raining hard now | 12:32:38 PM | |
| Friend: | rain good - hail - not so much | 12:33:02 PM |
| unless it takes the roof off my house | 12:33:10 PM | |
| hahahahaha | 12:33:11 PM | |
| Me: | take a bit more than this for that | 12:33:30 PM |
| sirens going off | 12:34:09 PM | |
| Yeah, WCCO shows it moving your way link | 12:34:35 PM | |
| Friend: | not good | 12:34:59 PM |
| maybe it will head more south | 12:35:06 PM | |
| Me: | you don't want that. | 12:35:15 PM |
| the bigger part is north of us | 12:35:20 PM | |
| Friend: | ooo | 12:35:23 PM |
| Me: | only a little bit is this far south | 12:35:29 PM |
| course, only the red bits are over us | 12:35:44 PM | |
| Friend: | its dark and stormy looking outside | 12:35:58 PM |
| Me: | cats no likey the sirens | 12:36:17 PM |
| Friend: | I bet not | 12:36:40 PM |
| Me: | and unless it breaks up, it's definitely coming your way. Hail might not go with it though? | 12:36:49 PM |
| Friend: | in bloomington the red parts are north and south of us | 12:37:20 PM |
| which is good | 12:37:22 PM | |
| heading right ot the airport tho | 12:37:42 PM | |
| Me: | yuck | 12:38:00 PM |
| it's moving fast. shouldn't delay much I'd assume | 12:38:11 PM | |
| Friend: | no | 12:38:16 PM |
| Me: | and your hastas should be ok. wasn't a lot of hail | 12:38:24 PM |
| Friend: | yea | 12:38:31 PM |
| Me: | and peppers, and cukes... and tommytoes | 12:38:44 PM |
| you got tommytoes? | 12:38:50 PM | |
| Friend: | lots of tommy toes | 12:38:56 PM |
| Me: | oooooooOOOOoooOOOoooo | 12:39:01 PM |
| can I has one? | 12:39:03 PM | |
| Friend: | if they survive the hails | 12:39:13 PM |
| Me: | shoo hail! | 12:39:21 PM |
| Me: | hmmm rain's gone. sky's a weird sea-green-blue tho | 12:39:44 PM |
| Friend: | thats not good either | 12:39:53 PM |
| Me: | not green green... | 12:40:04 PM |
| Friend: | green usually means bad | 12:40:06 PM |
| Me: | or yellow green | 12:40:09 PM |
| more robin's egg but not right for sky behind clouds | 12:40:21 PM | |
| Friend: | maybe the after hail look | 12:40:36 PM |
| Me: | could be | 12:40:41 PM |
| I'm not really well versed in rain/hail skys | 12:40:56 PM | |
| California girl | 12:41:01 PM | |
| Friend: | basic rule is green is bad | 12:41:12 PM |
| Me: | we got some sleet now and hten | 12:41:14 PM |
| Friend: | get out of the outside | 12:41:18 PM |
| Me: | whew. got that one covered | 12:41:27 PM |
| Friend: | in [South Dakota] the other thing was no wind meant take cover | 12:41:37 PM |
| only got still before twisters came | 12:41:45 PM | |
| Me: | ahhh | 12:41:47 PM |
| of course. they screwed up the weather patterns | 12:41:57 PM | |
| Friend: | yea | 12:42:02 PM |
| I still get nervous when I realize there is no wind | 12:42:12 PM | |
| Me: | NOAA says Chance of precipitation is 60% | 12:42:13 PM |
| Friend: | Id say maybe closer to 100 | 12:42:24 PM |
| Me: | ooo it's dark dark dark now | 12:42:34 PM |
| Friend: | round 2 | 12:42:42 PM |
| Me: | like after sunset dark | 12:42:46 PM |
| not nighttime dark | 12:42:55 PM | |
| Friend: | like the street lights just came on dark? | 12:42:57 PM |
| Me: | but late dusk | 12:43:00 PM |
| lemme check | 12:43:05 PM | |
| yup they're on | 12:43:21 PM | |
| Friend: | keep an eye on things | 12:43:29 PM |
| you in a basement? | 12:43:36 PM | |
| Me: | curtains are open. near basement | 12:43:41 PM |
| Friend: | good | 12:43:44 PM |
| Me: | watching sky from the couch | 12:43:55 PM |
| Friend: | good | 12:43:59 PM |
| make sure you can gather the kids [feline variety] in a hurry if you need to | 12:44:12 PM | |
| you should be ok | 12:44:18 PM | |
| but never a bad idea to be ready | 12:44:25 PM | |
| Me: | NOAA not reporting any rotation | 12:44:35 PM |
| just hail | 12:44:37 PM | |
| and "DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH" | 12:44:56 PM | |
| buckets of rain falling now | 12:45:19 PM | |
| visibility just decreased significantly | 12:45:39 PM | |
| going to take a photo out the door. brb | 12:45:45 PM |
A shot of the storm, taken from my front door.
| Me: | wind blowing rain sideways across roofs | 12:48:22 PM |
| lightning | 12:48:28 PM | |
| sky is really dark now | 12:48:36 PM | |
| some hail again, not much | 12:48:46 PM | |
| lightning and much greener sky | 12:49:07 PM | |
| kind of ugly green gray | 12:49:26 PM | |
| Friend: | let me peek here | 12:49:39 PM |
| Me: | NOAA says: DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED SOME WEAK ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM. | 12:50:17 PM |
| laptop is on battery power now since the storm is so close. rather not have it plugged in just now | 12:50:51 PM | |
| Friend: | yea | 12:51:33 PM |
| good idea | 12:51:35 PM | |
| [My relatives] had a pc get fried that way | 12:51:51 PM | |
| even thru a surge protector | 12:51:58 PM | |
| but then their house got hit by lightening | 12:52:08 PM | |
| so not much a surge protector is going to do about that | 12:52:22 PM | |
| [they] said it was about midnite and all of their lights came on | 12:52:41 PM | |
| scary then | 12:52:49 PM | |
| pretty funny now | 12:52:52 PM | |
| Me: | yup | 12:53:06 PM |
| our puters and TV (and off atm) are on full fledged UPS boxes, but the laptop not so much. | 12:53:39 PM | |
| Ugly green sky... yellowy now. | 12:54:04 PM | |
| Rain in sheets. Lightning near on top of us. And the cat tried to sneak out while I took a few photos out the door. | 12:54:32 PM | |
| Friend: | hahaha | 12:54:43 PM |
| Me: | She wouldn't have wanted to be out there long I spect | 12:54:49 PM |
| Friend: | nah | 12:54:55 PM |
| Me: | Oh wow | 12:54:56 PM |
| Friend: | she would be al "why did you let me go here?" | 12:55:09 PM |
| Me: | nearly done passing over by the look of the radar images on WCCO | 12:56:27 PM |
| Friend: | i see that | 12:57:40 PM |
| Me: | and it's getting a bit lighter, though not less stormy | 12:57:43 PM |
| Friend: | heading here now | 12:57:43 PM |
| i think the city takes some of the stuffin out of it | 12:58:06 PM | |
| Me: | worst winds look like they've passed. | 12:58:08 PM |
| it's amazing how fast the color of the sky changes | 12:58:36 PM | |
| it was a yucky green just a few mins ago, now back to more gray than green | 12:59:08 PM | |
| I should break for a commercial or something... I feel like a sports commentator | 12:59:35 PM | |
| Friend: | [my husband] is on the phone | 1:04:56 PM |
| he can hear the branches breaking | 1:05:10 PM | |
| Me: | ugh | 1:05:12 PM |
| Friend: | its a mess there | 1:05:24 PM |
| our tommy toes are in bad shape | 1:05:40 PM | |
| Me: | calling [my Mister] to tell him to stay inside when it goes over. | 1:05:44 PM |
| Friend: | and its still in full swing there | 1:05:46 PM |
| Me: | oooo no! | 1:07:09 PM |
| Friend: | [my husband] said theres about a foot of water in the street | 1:07:39 PM |
| was watching a idiot try to drive through it | 1:07:52 PM | |
| south of me yet | 1:08:07 PM | |
| Me: | Oooo poor tomatoes | 1:08:07 PM |
| Friend: | yea | 1:08:10 PM |
| we have them tied up | 1:08:14 PM | |
| but its reall windy | 1:08:19 PM | |
| Me: | Ok, sky is a normal rain-gray now | 1:08:24 PM |
| Friend: | good | 1:08:30 PM |
| Me: | thunder outside is that constant rolling sound that sounds like a plane flying overhead | 1:08:42 PM |
| Friend: | im glad that [my husband] is home with [my son] | 1:08:51 PM |
| Me: | yup | 1:08:55 PM |
| Friend: | it sounds very scary now | 1:08:56 PM |
| Me: | Sirens are going off at [my Mister]'s office now | 1:09:09 PM |
| I'm glad even Minnesotans aren't totally unphased by this stuff | 1:09:36 PM | |
| not like an office full of San Diegans in a mild earthquake. | 1:10:02 PM | |
| Who all look around for a minute... say... was that a quake? and then go back to business unless there are non-locals in teh room who need comforting | 1:10:35 PM | |
| (while I sneaked off to check in with the USGS website and fill in teh survey on their Did You Feel It page) | 1:11:11 PM | |
| Friend: | yea - but we loves our weather here | 1:11:51 PM |
| Me: | yeah | 1:11:57 PM |
| you folks with your weather guys in the mornings comparing notes on which of the twin cities has the coldest windchill that morning. | 1:12:27 PM | |
| Oooo St. Paul gets the trophy today at -27F | 1:12:47 PM | |
| Friend: | haha | 1:12:56 PM |
| Me: | winter is fun around here | 1:12:57 PM |
| Friend: | when it hit 60 below in Embarras | 1:13:05 PM |
| there was a lot of folks who were ticked that it broke the previous record - where ever that was | 1:13:28 PM | |
| Me: | I love watching the locals in short sleeves at 12° F | 1:13:29 PM |
| Friend: | yea | 1:13:34 PM |
| I have a 60 below mug from when that cold snap hit | 1:13:54 PM | |
| Me: | woot | 1:13:59 PM |
| Ok, storm's officially blown over. Sky is almost starting to look blue again through the gray | 1:14:56 PM | |
| Me: | sunny now. go figure. teh deck is even dry now since it's not real wood. | 2:12:19 PM |
| Friend: | [my husband] said the power is out all over bloomington | |
| they went to savage to find lunch | 2:30:00 PM | |
| Me: | the chipmunks are ferrying seeds back and forth from the neighbor's bird feeder. all must be well out there now. | 2:43:20 PM |
* when I left the house for a doc appointment at 9:30.
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