Terrifying freak storm ..........

[Ann]

Well in Leicestershire this afternoon we have experienced a storm like no other - one of almost biblical proportions! It started with a sky so dark, it reminded me of the total eclipse we had about 15 yrs ago when day turned to night! Then it started .........The hailstones were as big as golf balls and kept crashing against all the house windows I was quite sure they would break .... my brother was driving on the outskirts of town at the time and just had to pull in a layby, the hail dented his car, broke his front light and at least 5 birds dropped from the sky into the road killed by the hailstones I presume. A tree also fell onto a car in our town.
Our neighbours were not as lucky as us - carports shattered, and windscreens gone. Our street, on a hill, was flowing like a river with ice floating on top, my window boxes were full of water and all my bedding plants submerged and my patio was flooded.
Just as it all calmed down it started again and we had a repeat performance, I was really shaking with fright! Have never experienced anything like it before or want to again ...............like the end of the world :( thank goodness its passed and the sun is shining again and we are safe!

[Answerprancer]

I hope it happens down here in Nodnol ! I love extreme weather.

[boxtops]

The sky is really clear here, with a big fat half moon. Long may it continue!

[craft1948]

Okay................sorry for being grumpy :-)

[snags]

Still sunny here...

[Ann]

Yes I try to keep out of Leicester city centre for shopping, prefer out of city shopping centres instead ........... craft, we just love York, and also beautiful Yorkshire Dales, pity they are so far from us .........

[ummmm]

Did you get all defensive of York, Craft?? :-)

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

No offence taken :)
York is beautiful and so is Leeds. I'm kind of equidistant between the two. I see more of Leeds though because my gorgeous other lives there. I fully understand why Yorkshire people are so proud of their county. It's stunning.

[chi-chi66]

where are you snaggs? still sunny at 23.55? wish I was there;)

[craft1948]

I did ummmm...............I love York, same as everyone loves their birth place I suppose.

[Ann]

Craft says //As Mojo says it's been quite nice in York, although very humid..............how did the storm miss us? //

Come on Craft you know you always wanted a cracked windscreen/ dented car/shattered greenhouse/ broken carport/ tree on your car/ flooded garden/ broken plants etc etc ......... come to Leicestershire you could have had all that and more - who needs boring old York ;)

[Arksided]

Ummmm I think mojo wanted to be in Leicester for the storms

A storm-trooper in stilettos no doubt.

[craft1948]

LOL @ Ann................

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

Nope Arksided, a stormtrooper in wellies with a camera and a gleam in her eye.

[Arksided]

Lol, love it ;-)

[Ann]

//I love York, same as everyone loves their birth place I suppose.//
Er - Not really Craft, would prefer to have been born in the Greek Islands or somewhere exotic LOL :)

[craft1948]

Not me Ann............

[Ann]

You prefer English weather Craft??? Gosh .................I'm so impressed ;)

[ladybirder]

Mojo, Leeds is beautiful? Are you kidding me. I like Leeds very much, but beautiful? I must be missing something.

[ladybirder]

I hate my place of birth.

[naomi24]

Ladybirder, Sorry, I haven't read all the posts so if you've already revealed the place of your birth I apologise - but where were you born - and why do you hate it?