“I think that’s hail!” Chuck said as he jumped out of bed around 11:30 tonight. I was still on the couch, enjoying watching television for the first time in about a month (“Fight Club” was the movie on my screen at the time) and just thought we were getting some really heavy rain with some really large drops. In fact I was getting a bit annoyed as it was so loud I couldn’t hear the TV and it was just getting to some interesting dialogue. As I got up, Chuck opened the door of the camper to a serious hail storm! The ground was a solid-white blanket of dime-sized chunks of ice. We both grabbed our cameras (Chuck his digital and me my videocam) and started trying to capture the downpour. Alas, we had a great time doing so, but not much came out on film.

Hail on ground taken from our camper doorway

I decided to grab some of the hail and save it in the freezer to try and photograph it in the morning. “Owww! ” you could hear me cry as those little chunks really hurt as they hit my head! “Do that again! I want to get a picture of the hail bouncing off your head,” Chuck laughed. Thanks, honey! He’s such a funny guy.

Fortunately, the camper and truck were not damaged in the storm. It was exciting though. We haven’t seen that fierce a hail storm, nor one lasting as long, since we were in North Dakota on our first Northwest RV journey back in 2003.