Last night at about three a.m. we were awakened by the sound of some terrible machine with an ungodly motor moving purposefully down our street, tearing up and spitting out concrete. At least that's what it sounded like. It was actually one of the worst storms I've ever been in - in terms of the sound of the damned thing anyway. For a second there I thought the Gates of Hell had opened and I was pegged to be the first soul cast into the Lake of Fire.
The damage wasn't nearly as bad as I'd feared - the light of day revealed nothing more than some branches and leaves strewn about the yard and the cheap plastic patio furniture stacked up at odd angles at one end of the deck as though hurled by some pissed off BBQer. Still, it was pretty frightening while it lasted. For a minute there I was sure the windows were going to be blown right in, leaving us looking like something out of a Dario Argento film (don't click the link if a little blood and gore will bother you).
Pixie commented just yesterday afternoon that we seem to have a lot more weather up here than we did in Chicago and I think she's right. Less than a month before we moved there was a major hailstorm up here that damaged thousands of roofs in the area - the previous owner of our house paid his deductible and we ended up with a new roof and gutters out of the deal. There was another hailstorm a week and a half ago that was violent enough to send us scurrying to the basement. Somehow our house remained unscathed but the next door neighbors have holes in their siding the size of half-dollars.
Is the weather actually worse in Madison than in Chicago?
sucks for Ben here, but atleast nothing worse than a scare came out of it,,,,We can get some pretty mean storms like this here in Tn, which will give you figgiting hands, and intense worry,,,,weve even had an earthquake here at one time which though not major was just a weird feeling i didnt know what was happening...but it was kinda cool
Posted by: ryan at July 20, 2006 11:17 AMAs a lifelong Wisconsinite (Northeastern, to be exact), I can attest to the fact that the weather can get pretty scary in the summer. Last year, we had about a week of nightly tornado warnings in just about every county in the area. Southern Wisco seems to be even worse.
Posted by: darla at July 21, 2006 07:49 AMyeah, the weather here in madison is a little worse...we still get the "lake effect" weather, but we don't have the buildings to shield us. kinda sucks sometimes, but hey. that particular storm was easily the loudest storm i've ever hear as well. at least no tornadoes came out of it.
Posted by: megs at July 21, 2006 09:35 AM
