So we are taking in a little entertainment at the Street Performers Festival in the Arts Barn near Whyte Ave when all of a sudden we were hit by one of the worst storms Edmonton has seen for some time. Thank goodness we were inside! A few minutes earlier and we would have been caught in a sheet of water pouring out of the sky limiting visibility down to nil followed by a deluge of pea sized hail so intense they were using snowplows and graders to later clean off the streets. During the storm I got this shot of the hail pouring off a church roof.



It continued pouring like this for a good twenty minutes. Later, when it finally subsided and we were brave enough to venture out to get to the car, the volunteers were frantically trying to mop up water and deal with snowbanks of hail.



As we drove home we noticed the leaves that had been pulverized from the trees were laying all over the road and the parked cars and there was an eerie mist rising from the soggy grass creating a rather strange scene.



Apart from the flooded roads and basements a couple of tornados touched down just outside the city. The city was still cleaning up today and although our basement didn't flood, thankfully, I won't be cutting the grass for a few days until the small lake in our back yard dries up.

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