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If anyone was paying attention to the news earlier this week (Sunday-Monday in particular), you may have seen that there was some severe weather that passed through the northern suburbs of St. Paul, MN. Hugo in particular.

Guess where my wife and I live?? You’re right…Hugo.

Thankfully, the tornado passed about a mile north of where we live, so we didn’t lose our house like about 50 other families did. We did have some nasty hail damage to the back of our house and roof as you can see below:

That’s what 2-2 1/2″ hail stones can do to vinyl siding. As I said, luckily it was only the house that sustained the damage.

The title of the post…..well, I was the dumb one who was standing right next to the patio door window while the hail was hitting the house. The noise that it makes is virtually undescribable. The best way I can describe it is like this: you have made microwave popcorn before, right? Well, you know what it sounds like when it’s popping. Imagine yourself inside of that bag while the kernels are popping around you. That’s what it sounded like inside of our house for what seemed like 5 minutes. It was probably more like a minute or two, but it seemed like a very long time. All I know is that I was standing in front of the patio door and my wife was down in the basement screaming at me to get back down there. I couldn’t hear her.

Here are some links to picture galleries from the Pioneer Press (St Paul paper) and Star Tribune (Minneapolis paper) online.

We were aware of the bad weather coming our way because of the warnings that were on tv and we were watching the skies. But we had no clue of the severity. Again, as the headline of the post suggests, when there are severe weather warnings, don’t ignore them. Make sure you are as prepared as possible.

Til next time.

Ron