We had a little bit of weather here last week.
I walked out of work and thought, "Hey, that kind of sky looks familiar... No, I'm being silly. I'm in Phoenix. There are no tornadoes here!"
Apparently I was wrong. I don't know if they confirmed that it was actually a tornado that touched down, but it was craziness. I was driving down Camelback when the rainwater actually started blowing across the street. I couldn't see; I actually now understand how all those drivers end up in flash floods. (Although I do still think most people here are retarded when it rains. And I'm not the only one who thinks that; they actually have the Stupid Motorist Act here.)
Then the golf ball-sized hail started. And the wind was so strong, the trees were all bending and branches and stuff were hitting my car. Traffic just came to a complete stop, and I thought, this is it, I'm a goner. I could feel the wind trying to blow me off the road. I wished Nina was in the car with me, because Nina is a good person to scream with when you think you're going to die. Actually, I just wished anyone was in the car.
Here are a few pictures I took while sitting at a stop light after everything calmed down. You can see there's a little bit of water on the road; this area wasn't that bad compared to others.
I ended up being lucky, although my car does have a lot of hail damage. There were a lot of bad accidents, and lots of people had broken windows and other property damage.
The best part about the rain here is that there are lots of rainbows. This one went all the way across the sky, and for a while it was a double rainbow. You can just barely see the double rainbow in the second picture.
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