I was just finishing up a long and difficult week by taking myself out for a sushi dinner, when there was–at the exact same time–a flash of bright light and a BOOM! The whole restaurant jumped out of its chairs and ran to the window. I thought there had been an explosion on the roof, but the waiter assured me it was just a clap of thunder. Two minutes later, FLASH-BOOM! again. Frazzled, the clientele scampered back to their seats.
Five minutes later: “It’s raining!” “No, it’s snowing!” “It can’t be snowing! This is San Francisco!” “No wait! That’s ice! It’s hailing!”
And white marbles proceeded to fall from the sky. I ran outside to dance in it while the waiter ran my credit card, and little children stood at the window to point. There was an exodus of camera phones from pockets as everyone tried to capture the event–but who can really capture falling hail with a camera phone? (I tried.)The storm lasted about ten minutes, and then it was over. Twenty minutes later, the white crunchy streets were back to their regular soggy black. The firetruck sirens are still blaring.
This was way better than an earthquake. Hands down.
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March 17th, 2006 at 12:21 am
Yip, yip, yippee! I love hail! All hail to hail!
We had friggin snow in the Cruz. Then I left for Austin where it was 88 degrees.
By the way, South by Southwest Interactive was right up your alley, Ms. Dopp. Techies and fun weirdos like us everywhere. Yip, yip, yippee! I love geeks!
March 11th, 2006 at 6:25 am
yet in new hampshire we were wearing tshirts at 10 at night around a bon fire, global climate change, what?
March 10th, 2006 at 10:34 pm
And here I’m all excited because it’s raining and only 43 degrees in Topanga. I mean, they weather gods are predicting snow as low as 1800 feet. I could wake up to snow. Highly unlikely, but still… YIKES!
Loved your pic!