A Week of Storms

This past week has been very weather-busy. Almost every night since i finished school last week has been peppered with continuous weather coverage on my favorite local station, KAKE. (Yes, they named themselves after a baked good.) On one night, the coverage lasted for 8 hours straight! The meteoroligists were on from 6pm to 2am, no commercial breaks, no regular prime-time television, nothing... just watching tornadoes march across the state.

Here in Wichita, we did not get any tornadoes, but we got several severe thunderstorms with large hail and damaging winds. (This phrase, "large hail and damaging winds" is a common one around here, and for the longest time i said it wrong, with "large winds and damaging hail." But that's true enough as well.)

Unfortunately most of the storms happened after 10pm, and there was not enough light to film them or even take flash photography. Yesterday we got a little one with some hail...



It was mostly just quarter-sized, but yes, those suckers hurt when you walk outside in them!!




And then later that evening at around 9pm there was a nice lightning show off to my North, as one of the storms passed over Park City or Bell Aire Kansas...



On Thursday i will be off to take my dad to Denton, Nebraska to the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter. A couple of his friends are being ordained in the Latin Rite there this weekend. After i drop him off on the 1st, i will spend one more night in Wichita, and then i am off on my Great American Safari!!

Telling the story of my trip through Arizona and New Mexico might take several posts over several days, but i will get it up here with pictures eventually. i look forward to having more time to read about everyone once i return! This has been a hectic time of year.