As some of you may know, the metro Atlanta area was bombarded with tornadic activity the past 24 hours or so. Unbelievable....baseball-size hail in Cherokee county, downtown Atlanta skyscrapers looking like post-blitzkrieg Warsaw, etc.
Being riveted to local coverage of devastating weather most of the afternoon, my confidence in doppler radar grew by the hour. After being assured that a squall line was headed to Fairburn, I decided to walk the dog. I got like half a mile when lightning started crashing on the horizon....heavy winds increased exponentially as dark clouds appeared out of nowhere. Fucking hail the size of pennies started falling. Following the dog's lead, I decided to try my luck in the woods adjacent to the road. Limbs were falling as green pine cones flew around like bubbles!! No quicker than the maelstrom had started, it stopped. Birds started chirping.....sunshine beamed through the surviving canopy!
The neighbors were out in their yards as I made my way home. Oddly enough, the debris seemed more important than my physical well-being.
Go figure.