Thunderstorms

Major thunderstorms bellowed down and caused flooding around the local area this afternoon and evening. During one of the thunderstorms, heavy rains served as a catalyst for a 16 vehicle wreck on I-70 around 6:30 pm which caused a semi to jack knife and an RV to run into it. Paul and I happened to be driving along the overpass just above the interstate where the wreck occurred so we had a bird's eye view of it. It was quite shocking and I believe it was the worst accident I've ever seen. Makes on think how fast everything can change!

Short night

Last night we awoke at about 2 a.m. to the sound of thunder followed by a downpour of hail. The hail pounded on our roof and outside. When we looked outside we saw golf ball sized hail that landed on our balcony along with some smaller sized hail. We finally got back to sleep after the hail ended and then we were woke up again sometime around 4-5 a.m. to more thunderstorms. What made the night of sleep worse was that we had gone to bed late (after midnight) which made for a very short night with the alarm set at 6:45 a.m. My "pic of the day" is of one of the hail stones, you have to remember that I took this pic after waking up in the middle of the night so it's not one of my best.