Sunday, June 8, 2008

Tornado alley

This is what is looks like after 100mph winds and 3/4 inch hail storms pound your van for half an hour.

As we crossed the Kansas state line, we saw four funnel clouds kicking up dust to our right, but quickly saw it shift right across RT-35, right in front of us. As most of everyone tried to park under overpasses we moved on. Literally some of the craziest weather I've ever been in. Five seconds later I couldn't see two feet in front of the van and it was so hard to keep on the road that we too tried to get under an overpass and just got nailed by hail for five minutes straight.

We have some of it on video, it'll be up when we get home at the end of the month.

We drove about 7 hours so far today, but we're stopped and about to catch a movie called 'The Strangers' before another eight hours of driving to Denver tonight. Coffee and sunflower seeds here I come.

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