In July (2011) Cheyenne got some of the worst hail storms I have ever seen. We were outside playing and then it started raining, we all ran inside and seconds later it was hailing. Then it got louder and louder so we looked out the window and saw golf balls bouncing all over the place. It was crazy! The kids got a little scared and thought we were going to have to hide in the laundry room (that's our safe room for when we have tornado warnings). The first storm was about 15 minutes and damaged the cars a little bit. The second storm last about 30 minutes and totaled Troy's car, caused over 7,000 dollars worth of damage on the Yukon, destroyed our garden and knocked branches off our trees. I think the only positive thing about these storms was it totally boosted car sales all around Cheyenne and parts of Colorado!
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| The kids watching very closely to the craziness happening outside. |
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| This was the hail after the first storm. The kids thought it was pretty cool. |
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| The backyard after the second storm. It looks as if it had snowed but it was just tons of hail. Sebastien was prepared though....bike helmet, rain boots and shovel to help clean up. |
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Manti wanted to join in on the clean up.
Pictures of Troy's car after the second and most damaging storm. |
Our garden and flowers...what is left anyway!
The second storm was so bad, the hail clogged up the drains and the street behind us started flooding. The base had to hurry and send out the tractors to remove piles and piles of hail to get the water to drain.
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| The car on the left had water covering it up to the door handle. |
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| The sky after the storm had passed over us. It was really intense. The picture doesn't do justice to how it really looked. |
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| The size of the hail from the second storm. |
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Even after everything, these two were still all smiles.
(Not really daddy, he was just pretending for the picture.) |
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