{"id":190,"date":"2006-03-10T19:41:38","date_gmt":"2006-03-11T02:41:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-03-10T19:47:51","modified_gmt":"2006-03-10T19:47:51","slug":"hailstorm_in_san_francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/2006\/hailstorm_in_san_francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Hailstorm in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"juiz-outdated-message jodpm-top\">Heads up, this content is 20 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.<\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/aranyamei\/110703964\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/19\/110703964_0fd7c890c3_m.jpg\" alt=\"Hailstorm in San Francisco\"  align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was just finishing up a long and difficult week by taking myself out for a sushi dinner, when there was&#8211;at the exact same time&#8211;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.  <\/p>\n<p>Five minutes later:  <b>&#8220;It&#8217;s raining!&#8221;  &#8220;No, it&#8217;s snowing!&#8221;  &#8220;It can&#8217;t be snowing!  This is San Francisco!&#8221;  &#8220;No wait!  That&#8217;s ice!  It&#8217;s hailing!&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/aranyamei\/110703962\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/46\/110703962_08e8d1eac0_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Hailstorm in SF\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>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&#8211;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.<\/p>\n<p>This was <b>way<\/b> better than an earthquake.  Hands down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heads up, this content is 20 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading. I was just finishing up a long and difficult week by taking myself out for a sushi dinner, when there was&#8211;at the exact same time&#8211;a flash of bright light and a BOOM! The whole restaurant jumped out of its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogged_on_the_go"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}