Two months ago I was caught in a hail storm on my way to Abu Dhabi early in the morning around 7am. Elizabeth found these photographs online. They were taken by Molimar Molina, who is an amazing photographer whose website you should check out. Clicking on each of the images below will also take you to Molimar’s original postings. While I was stuck in the storm I kept thinking, “If only I had a camera!” Thank you Molimar.
So the top of our car is permanently dented. The nearest overpass on the highway was packed full of cars trying to get under the cover of the bridge. No one could drive at the height of it. It was awe inspiring. And the intense clouds that I was driving into on the horizon before arriving at the actual storm were like what you’d imagine would mark the earthly arrival of some planet-destroying alien life force. Talk about the sky opening up. If I had not been inside a metal-roofed car, I would have had to curl into a ball on the ground and would have had large welts on my back for weeks. The size of the ice chunks were enormous – like baseballs. The ones on the ground have already melted.
Here’s a fun hail-related online game to play: effing-hail. It was kind of like that.