"Summer Storms"

May 29th, 2012 -Well guys, we're north and it's as far north as we're going to make this summer. We didn't stop and smell the roses like we usually enjoy. This time we had a schedule that we desperately wanted to keep. We did have a chance to meet up with a few of our friends along the way. Our happiest moment was making the ceremonies of the two college graduates. 

 Everyone told us when we made it back north that the winter had been 'wonderful'. There was no real cold weather and no heavy snow storms. In fact it was the winter without the snow.  Well Mother Nature has a way of  letting you know that nothing is predictable. The past two weeks have been amazingly wet and dreary. We  had missed the beautiful warm sunshine of the south. Tuesday's weather report was the typical 30% chance of rain and/or scattered thunderstorms  but with an unusual high of around 80 degrees. Well the day began beautifully and we thought that the weatherman was crazy! We watched the evening news and they were reporting 'weather watches' and showed a line of storms making a direct path our way.  We thought no way,,, the sun was shining,,,  and then,,,,the clouds slowly began to build. Shortly around 8pm we watched this wall of clouds cover the sky. It was extremely eerie as the winds began to howl and the sky turned black. Mother nature had a show that she wanted to share and it was spectacular! The pictures below don't come close to how ominously black the sky became , you had to be here!