I have never seen a storm like this in my life.

Golf-ball sized hail and a huge amount of water at the same time, lasting ~15 minutes.

It was pretty much deafening, and then it got louder.

I have no idea what it's going to look like when things die down.  I'd imagine that anyone with plants outside has some work ahead of them, at the least.  No concept of what it must have been like to be caught on a bike in this . . .

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Permalink Reply by BalloonBiker on June 30, 2011 at 3:44pm
So happy to beat the rain and hail home tonight.  I was just going inside as the rain started coming down.  The tailwind was amazing. It really is quite a spectacular storm, I saw some really massive lightening bolts and really appreciated the view from my bike.
Permalink Reply by Doug Haynes on June 30, 2011 at 3:47pm
Yeah it was pretty wild.
Permalink Reply by Moc Artsy on June 30, 2011 at 3:48pm

Totally Biblical-scale plague of hail. End of the world stuff. Never seen anything like it either.

Permalink Reply by Tank-Ridin' Ryan on June 30, 2011 at 3:53pm
THAT WAS AWESOME!  A few times I heard the air crackling from the lightning, and then BOOM!  Followed by DOWNPOUR AND HAIL!  WOO HOO!
Permalink Reply by Joel on June 30, 2011 at 3:58pm

And my plants were looking freaking fantastic -- now most of the open flowers on my chile plants have been blasted off.  Tomato branches are gone, though luckily it looks like most of the flowers and fruits survived.  The first chile harvest just got set back by at least 3 weeks though :(  The herbs look ok...

Permalink Reply by BalloonBiker on June 30, 2011 at 4:02pm

Ryan- were you riding south on California by any chance?

 


Tank-Ridin' Ryan said:

THAT WAS AWESOME!  A few times I heard the air crackling from the lightning, and then BOOM!  Followed by DOWNPOUR AND HAIL!  WOO HOO!
Permalink Reply by Paul Bracht on June 30, 2011 at 4:10pm
I was at the lake near Belmont watched as the CFD boat assisted boats into the harbor took some crazy pictures then got stranded at a bar on Waveland where I took an amazing video of the lightning show.
Permalink Reply by Ash L. on June 30, 2011 at 4:17pm

I really hope no one was out riding in it. I stupidly stepped outside a wee bit to try to get some video and got clobbered. I have a nasty cut/bruise on my arm from a ping pong ball size chunk.

Permalink Reply by David of the North (David606xx) on June 30, 2011 at 4:25pm
Just a tiny bit of hail up in Rogers Park as I arrived home, but fantastic wind, rain, lightning.
Permalink Reply by in it to win it 8.0 mi on June 30, 2011 at 4:26pm
Ugh. My poor plants...
Permalink Reply by Gecko on June 30, 2011 at 4:50pm
Crazy, golfball-sized hail down here too, 51st & Western-ish.  I had a bad feeling about going to the Point 83 ride tonight.  I guess my gut was right, I'm really glad I wasn't out riding around drunk in that crap.
Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on June 30, 2011 at 5:09pm
that was fun.

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