Y'all Ain't Gonna Believe This...

Last night at 3:30 in the morning I was stirred by thunder, then a little lightning and eventually awakened by a lot of both. Then came the sound of the wind and the rain. Finally, the heavens for real opened up and a barrage of hail...holy hail...pummeled us for 15 minutes. In the reflection of the outside motion lights...it was coming down in like straight lines like in a cartoon.  This is during the height of the storm.

This last shot is out our front door.  The space between those 2 pink bunnies is our sidewalk under about 2 inches of hail floating in about 2 inches of water.  And you see that fog-like mist to the left? That's the heat/steam coming off the ground from the cold of the hail. Cah-ray-Z!

And then can you believe how much stayed around the next morning? Our neighborhood streets weren't even visible due to the new green foliage ALL OVER it! People had haildrifts (like snowdrifts) up against their front steps.  Apparently, we were in the center of the storm because family members around us did not get this at all!!! My plants and tulips are destroyed! :(

See the snow on the neighbors dock and the steam coming off the water!

Yes, my car is under there!  It looks like it's undercover! ha ha

My poor, poor, pitiful plants!  I had sweet daffodils and tulips YESTERDAY!  :(

The funny thing is we got this much hail the day before (pic below), literally about 12 hours before, and it collected against our sliding glass door. And we thought that was a lot!