So in between coming home from Flutter on Saturday afternoon and leaving for my friend Emily’s bachelorette party Saturday evening I heard an odd noise.  Keep in mind it was BEAUTIFUL outside.  Sun, barely any clouds, warm temps (finally)…  Really a great Minnesota early summer afternoon.  Back to the noise…   tornado sirens.  I was in the bathroom curling my hair when they started to go off.  Looked out the window and it was still sunny out so I figured they were testing or something.  My friend Sarah comes over and as I let her in I notice the sky has clouded over.  5 minutes later this starts…

Ok, so we’re getting a little hail and a storm.  We turn on the tv and the warnings are flying all over the place.  Then the tink, tink, tink noise the hail had been making turns into a sound I have never heard before…

The sound of the wind, thunder and hail was so loud we were having to raise our voices to hear each other.  Sarah, Zach and I just stood there kind of amazed at what we were watching.  After a minute I started to get a little scared that maybe we should head down to the garage to hide out from the hail stones that seemed intent on busting through our windows.  Sarah tried to open our sliding door to take a picture and she literally got blown back from the wind.  Everything came to a stop 5 or 10 minutes later.   This is what it looked like…

 

The next day there was still hail in the streets that had yet to melt.  By far one of the craziest storms I have ever seen.