The Ice That Fell From The Sky

During the last two days I have seen several amazing rain storms.  I have never seen anything like it in my life for this time of year.  This evening, just before 5:00, giant black clouds started rolling in.  We decided to pick up some dinner instead of going straight home and we ended up in the middle of a massive thunder storm that threw chunks of ice to the ground that were bigger than a freaking quarter!  The hail pocked my Pilot up, stripped trees and bushes of leaves and limbs, shattered windows, toppled trees and powerlines and flooded the streets.  And I don't think it is done yet.  I am in awe.

I am learning of more and more people that I know whose windows, solar panels, and sky lights are shattered.  They are spending the evening cleaning up glass and water.  Our neighborhood didn't get hit as hard and I'm grateful for that.  Everything is still intact.  I'm praying things stay that way.  The Phoenix Valley sure has some freaky weather sometimes!  Mylanta!

This is a picture of a couple of pieces of hail...next to a quarter!

Sorry, it is kinda blurry.

We were in the car when the storm hit.  I had Joshie and the girls.  They were all scared to death.  Emma was bawling and Kacey was hiding under a blanket.  Joshie's eyes were as big as saucers.  I hoped the windows wouldn't break and wondered when in the world it would end.

Here is my poor car.  Boo hoo.

Can you see the big dent?

When we pulled onto our street there was a beautiful full rainbow over our house.

Followed by a double.  The second one is a little hard to make out.  I wish I had a better camera to capture this stuff.

Then I turned around to the west and saw the sun coming out of the clouds and I took this half decent snapshot.

I can only think of God's majesty and power.  I am still in awe.