[Villager Dude]

Originally Posted by ajbrown

Not from the storm, but from trying to run home

My wife and I usually take out “exercise walks” at different times. As neither of us had yet done our walk today, we decided to go together. I looked at the radar and there was some menacing stuff to the NE, and a little blip to the S. I proclaimed confidently, “who knows” .

My route is all of the streets around Murphy’s Estates off of Odell. A bit into our walk (as far away as possible) we feel a drop. I was very large and cold drop… We do one more street (cul de sac) and as we are coming back we see a flash of lightening. By the time my brain even thought about counting one thousand … the boom erupted .

We needed no radar to say let’s get home. Our brisk walked turned to a power/race walk and the rain began to fall harder and more thunder crashed around us. My wife said lets jog home. I felt this may be just another ploy of hers to try and get rid of me when more thunder erupted. As a jog turned to a run I was thinking I really wish I worked out harder and had lost that extra 15- 20 pounds… I also pondered is it better to die of heart failure or lightening?

We made it home soaking wet…. I learned that brisk walks do not prepare you to run for any period of time and predicting thunderstorm activity not associated with a cold front is really a crap shoot….

Man it rained and wow we had some amazing lightening/thunder claps that were very close. Made this wimp for my old basement….

Hope everyone made it through with no issues ...

We had hail in Amelia as well. About the size of a pea.