Yesterday evening, a strong storm hit Louisville. I was driving home from Lexington at the time and was watching as I drove closer toward the dark storm clouds. It didn’t look too bad for a while, but then I started seeing lightning jump between the clouds. The rain started off slowly at first, but I was soon driving into a torrent; then the hail started falling. I have never driven in such a bad storm before so it was quite an experience for me.
The hail was falling rather hard so I joined the ten or so other cars and trucks that had stopped below an underpass to wait out the storm for a while. As more cars stopped, there was only about one lane of traffic actually open. After the storm started to lessen I ventured out again after the car that had been stopped in front of me drove off. It was still rather difficult to see, but luckily I was close to campus and knew the path home well.
Lots of small hail stones.
More Hail
Approaching campus, the storm had died down to a light rain; however, I then had to find a way around all the underpasses that surround campus to get to my apartment. I had to backtrack about three times after reaching flooded underpasses, but the police had done a good job of blocking off the areas so no one got stuck in the water. I was able to remember a way around the underpasses and get back to my apartment as the storm ended and it stopped raining.
Flooded Underpass
It was quite an adventure for me and I was lucky that the hail didn’t damage my car other than a few dents and I was able to make it home safely. With such a sudden and strong storm, others weren’t as lucky and experienced hail damage.
Hail Damage