On a personal note, I was on a long drive today, from Morris to Minneapolis, and in particular, from St. Cloud to Minneapolis. Simultaneously, one of those massive monster midwest thunderstorms was following me along I94. I’m talking continuous lightning flashes, rolling thunder, torrential rain, and nasty great lumps of hail falling out of the sky. The roof of my car is heavily dimpled now, and worse, it was slow, white-knuckle driving, and right now my hands are cramped up, and my neck is a rigid stalk of tense muscles, my eyes hurt, and I have a terrible headache. But I’m safe now, at least!
Three hours on the road in the middle of that late at night…not cool. Also not cool was coming up on an overpass and discovering that all the cars in front of me had stopped beneath it for shelter, creating a roadblock of terrible immobile flashing lights…and long lines of cars backed up, unable to fit under the shelter and also unable to pull off the freeway at all.
Glad you are safe. Welcome home.
Yes, glad you made it home safely. The weather seems to reflect the personal trauma you are dealing with as well as the chaos around us all.
Does everything go wrong at once or does it just seem like it?
Asking for a friend.
Or the one where the President of The Heritage Foundation and author of Project 2025 Kevin Roberts exclaims “the revolution will reman bloodless if the left allows it.”
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Ughh, hail pressure dents. Not long ago someone I used to work with had her vehicle demolished by a severe hail core. I kinda recall it may have been totaled. She got a different vehicle as a result. My own car was totaled due to being rear ended and I got a newer vehicle as a result, though had to pay the difference.
Ironically I was worried enough about that forecasted hail to cover my previous car in towels hoping to prevent damage. No major hail hit my area, just tiny stuff. And little did I know what would happen to the car later.
Glad you’re ok. Sadly this added to your current ordeal
It was quite a spectacular thunderstorm, with lightning crisscrossing the sky and torrential rain. We did not get hail, but my power was knocked out twice.
Sorry to hear you were driving through the storm. I’m sure there was zero visibility between the dark and the pouring rain.
I hardly believe I was driving through this: