It's just before 1:00pm here in Mesa and my brother David just called me to go take pictures of the Superstition Mountains. Looking east from the sidewalk in front of my house you can see they are packed with snow.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Ice Falling From Sky WOW WOW WOW
At about 10:30 am Ariz time I was sitting at my computer and it started to rain. It has been overcast, dark and gloomy since yesterday but the weatherman's promised rain hadn't come yet. Then "glonks" starting hitting the house. These weren't rain drops - they were cups of water. I could see them hit the pool and pool decking out the window - big, noisy, splashes of water. Then - Holy cow - It wasn't water anymore - it was chunks of ice. Big - the size of ping pong balls. steam was coming off the walkway where they were hitting. I grapped my camera and got a card in it and got outside. The temperature must have dropped 20 degrees in 3-4 minutes - it was so cold - and the noise of the kids in the neighborhood running & crunching the ice, screaming with laughter , filled the street. By the time I started taking pictures we had a white world here in our neighborhood! Gosh - I wish I had a better camera. It lasted only 8-9 minutes - then stopped and everything started melting.
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