Terrifying freak storm .......... in The AnswerBank: Weather

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

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!

17:30 Thu 28th Jun 2012

penelope2

Wow !

gness

Thought of you Ann when Radio Northampton said how bad you were having it.
Was there also a tornado in Leics?
Keep safe. Fx

Traci66

That must have been amazing.

jno

I think this is a warning against increasing ungodliness in Leicestershire. I hope you will all learn your lesson.

lcg

woah....sounds really bad. i'd have peed myself! glad you're ok, tho x

gness

Don`t know who F is. Shoota scared me earlier and fingers jittery. Gx

Charity

Flooding in Coventry :0(

DTCwordfan

Nostradamus is around the corner....

at least you are safe, and your bro too.....

fredkins

I think thats whats going to happen here it has come over very dark,just heard thunder,definitely the heavens are going to open.

EcclesCake

Oh my goodness! I have to say I would love to have witnessed it...from a safe, dry location. I hope no one has been badly affected and thos at the bottom of the hill haven't been flooded out.

I'm just stepping out to bring my washing in, just to be safe.....

sunny-dave

Yes Charity - the Coventry ring road was even more tricky than usual ... very dark and scary :(

HowardKennitby

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/

shows it all

jno

yes, well, you see those big yellow suns down in the bottom right hand corner? I'm under one of those.

flump1

That must have been terrifying Ann, thank goodness you are ok.

lozzer50

crikey!! ive just driven home through darwen and never have i driven through so much rain, it was awful i only drive a small car and it was making a bow wave behind me !! i thought it would be better on the motorway but it was worse, you couldnt see the wipers werent moving the rain and hail, the road was flooded oy was i glad to get home what awful weather this country is having at the moment !