Last night we had a wicked awesome storm! I woke up to super loud thunder and huge flashes of lightning. It was so great!! I still can't tell how awake I was for it, because I ended up dreaming about being caught in the middle of a storm..but laying there, listening to the rain pelt the window and the thunder booming louder and louder each time, I couldn't help but smile as I drifted back to sleep.
So this morning, I went into my parent's room (Daddy was already gone. He's a junior high teacher and leaves pretty early). My mom was in bed reading a book and I asked her if she heard the storm last night.
"Yeah, I had to run out and make sure my tomato plants weren't drowning or getting ruined!", she said.
My mom planted some tomatoes a few weeks ago, and they've been her "babies" this past little while... They're in big plastic planters so we can move them inside if we need to. I could just see my mom darting out of bed in the middle of the night to brave the storm and save her precious tomatoes. I don't blame her, though... home-grown tomatoes are the BEST!
So anyway... we were talking about the storm when I remembered another storm that occurred about two months ago. I was at work (I work at a boutique/craft store two minutes away from my house) and on this particular day it was hailing.
There was a lady shopping with her six year-old neice at the time the storm hit. The lady had to run out to her truck to roll up her windows, so it was just me and the little girl. And that's when the storm got really bad.
I work in what used to be a warehouse; TALL ceilings, piping visible, and all that jazz. The roof is made of some sort of tin material, so the hail was LOUD. The little girl started to freak out, not knowing what on earth that noise was. She turned to me and said "What's that noise?!".
It was so loud I felt like I was yelling... "It's okay, it's just hailing on the roof!", I said to her, trying to comfort her.
She looked terrified; "Hailey? What's she doing up there??"
....
Huh.
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