Let me tell you about some weather...

So Rachel brought Maddy over for a walk tonight, and it was looking grey outside, but it had been sunny and beautiful yesterday and today, with some rain last night, but nothing major. Rich, Rachel, Kim and I took Maddy, with Rich pushing her in the stroller, for a walk to amuse her until her bedtime. She's been a bit cranky for a couple of days, and we think she's teething.

We walked our usual two-mile walk, down our street to the cemetary, through the cemetary to American St, where we walk past the parking lot for the city pool, and the Little League baseball diamonds, the skateboard park, and then some more residential blocks, and turn up the street that brings us back home. When we turn to leave the cemetary, at the corner of American, (that's the point at which we are halfway home) we heard the siren that means everyone needs to get out of the pool! The sky had been getting darker, and we had seen a couple of raindrops, but it still wasn't raining.

Apparently when the siren goes to indicate that the pool is closing, it means the baseball games are over, too, because as we walked, we could see people leaving the games and getting into their cars, and then it started to sprinkle a little. We were walking as briskly as we could, which for Rich is pretty fast, since he has long legs, and he was about half a block ahead of us, but he kept turning to wait.

I was really dragging on the walk today because it was so humid I felt like I could hardly breathe! Rachel had been walking beside Rich, but at this point she had dropped back to walk with me, and Kim was just ahead of us. It was starting to rain lightly as we went past the parks and back into the residential neighborhood, and people were taking in their plants and things, and as we turned the last corner to head back to our house, we were getting pretty wet.

It was raining steadily as we went those last few blocks, and Rich was a good block ahead of us, pushing the stroller, when we were about two blocks from home, and he turned to wait for us, under a tree, so Maddy wasn't getting rained on, but we waved him on, and Rachel yelled for him to go home, "Just go, save the baby!" Haha!

By the time we got to the house it was really raining, and all of us were wet! Rich was already inside, drying Maddy off with a towel, and the rest of us were drying off and Rich turned on the Weather Channel to see what they had to say, and apparently there was a severe thunderstorm warning!

As we watched TV, the rain outside got harder and harder and was coming down in sheets, and Rich was running around closing windows, and we started hearing hail! We all ran to the front door to look out at the hail!

The heaviest part of the storm only lasted about 15 minutes, but it was pretty exciting while it lasted!! We were lucky to have gotten in before it got bad!