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crack!

Yesterday morning before school started, I was alone in the building. I heard a loud crack! in the hallway. I started walking to the source of the sound, and heard another crack! from the ceiling in my classroom. When the building is quiet, you can hear squirrels scampering across the roof, but this didn’t sound at all like a squirrel. crack! crack! Two more! Suddenly the whole roof was vibrating with the sound: crack! crack! crack! crack!

It was hail! I ran to the front door to see it. Pea-sized hail was falling. Hail always seems so weird to me. It’s not cold enough for sleet or snow, yet ice is falling from the sky.

The hail lasted only a few minutes, then changed to heavy rain. I was glad to have already been in the building. And by yesterday afternoon, the sky was clear again. I didn’t even need an umbrella.

Tiny ice.

5 Comments

  1. Lauren

    I am also bewildered by hail, and I also feel terrible for animals caught in it. That has to really freak them out – and hurt. Crazy weather anomalies.

    That is a really good picture, by the way.

    • Lloyd

      Except for squirrels. They totally deserve hail.

      • Peggy

        HA!

        And I’m so impressed Brad that instead of hiding, you went to investigate things that go creak crack in the night! Honestly, it’s pitch black outside.

  2. Curt

    That one piece of hail looks like a moon.

  3. Carol

    Glad you posted all this – even I, the other early bird, missed the entire hail event! I must have been indoors somewhere the roof has better insulation (?). [Hail scares the be-goodness out of me normally because I just know itll crack the windshield of my car while I’m driving in it, for instance.]

    Some days the roof noises are crows, too, Riverdancing across the tar paper up there. Equally creepy noise if you ask me…

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