Good ole Kentucky weather is at it again. Today, along with our funnel clouds and flooding my hometown was graced with hail. The first time I experienced hail when I was in middle school. Little marble sized started pinging off our roof. My older brother and I had never experienced hail before. Obviously, my brother ran in the front yard to collect some of the magical ice crystals. After all, how else will we learn about science? Just as he scooped up some stones to walk back in baseball sized hail started plummeting down. Luckily, he made it in. Sadly, our mom' car lost it's windshield.
I'm a little terrified of hail. I don't want my car hurt. I love my car... Also, innocent people and homes and trees blah blah blah don't damage them blah... But my car could be hurt! To help ease my fear I've employed one of my favorite techniques. Instead of thinking of hail in the terms the weatherpeople use: 3" diameter, golfball sized; I like to think of hail as gumball sized or jellybean sized and my favorite: baby hedgehog diameter. Lying to myself always seems to make me feel better.
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