Driving Rain

That was a pretty frightening storm last night. I mean, it wasn't that loud or anything, but the tornado warning freaked us out. But ah, the main fear was when we drove through it. Do you recall that I mentioned we were going to dinner with the cousins? Well, we met them at a restaurant in Thorntown, why we traveled 45 minutes just to eat dinner I do not know, and we left around 8:15. As we were leaving the restaurant it was raining, and guess what, a tornado warning siren was going off. So we get to the car and turn on the radio trying to decide what station to listen to for weather, while overhead the sky is gradually darkening. Now it was pouring and we were driving along, getting scared and all that, and it starts to hail. Big loud hail. By this time mom was calling my Aunt Gloria in Zionsville to see if she could check the weather for our area. Instead, our cousin Harrison picked up, he said she wasn't there and checked the weather online for us. So, now the hail had stopped and the rain had lessened a bit but it was still very dark and ominous. We now knew from the radio that the storm was coming southeast and that in Boone County and Marion County funnel clouds had been seen. Great. We were in Boone County. GREAT. So we were in front of or in the midst of a big storm and we were traveling east trying to get away from it. Then my Uncle Hugh(husband to Gloria) called back and it started to hail and rain again so we pulled off. Keep in mind, we're in ruralish Indiana and it's just us, some other cars, and the occasional passing barn. The hail stopped off pretty quickly so we pulled back out and kept going. Most of the trip it was like that, rain/rain and hail/less hail/less rain/more rain again/hail again, and so on. Also, look to the north and it wasn't too bad, just a bit cloudy and darkish, there was even a small bit of blue sky every so often, but look to the south and it was dark. Dark and gray and scary. So then what do we do? We turn south on 421. And guess what, more rain and hail. The rain was so loud and threatening, slapping against the side of the car while the hail smacked the roof. Finally when we were getting closer to home, I'm thinking, "okay so we're good, we're almost there". And then we hear the report that Southeast Hamilton County has a tornado warning. Now wait a minute, that's where we were headed. So instead of going further into a storm we turned on 146th rather than 116th. Anyway, we eventually got home safe and sound after that, if not a little frazzled. We all went straight down to the basement of course. When we turned on the weather and saw the radar we realized we'd driven right through the storm. Fun. Of course, there was only one report of an actual tornado touching down and that was in Lapel, which is what, like 20 miles away from us. Now let me say, this story does not do our little car ride justice, we were really panicking what with the wind and rain and hail and the shaking car and the fact that sometimes we could hardly see thanks to the mist and darkness. What an ordeal.

But now it's sunny out and nice today, and I'm going for a walk. ^_^