Hail yeah!

Eric's been out of town all week for work in Seattle. The week was pretty uneventful until yesterday. Austin had the biggest hail storm that this city has seen in 15 years and I was in the middle of it! After American Idol, I decided to run to get a burger and fries at Jack-in-a-Box, about 2 miles away. The entire way there, it was really eerie and like a strobe light, a constant flicker of lightning lit up the sky. After getting out of my truck I noticed a weird humming sound and thought that I better check the news for a possible tornado. The weather service was issuing a severe thunderstorm warning with reports of golf ball sized hail and tornadoes. I immediately thought of my truck and protecting it from hail damage, which can be pretty nasty. Our garage is barely a one car garage and with the built in work station, the parking is even more limited. So I began stacking....box on top of box, on top of bike, on top of weed whacker, on top of lawn mower, on top of skies, on top of golf clubs, on top of laundry baskets until I inched my truck inside the garage so that I could close the garage door. It took about 5-10 minutes of maneuvering. The moment I shut the garage door, all hell broke loose. It literally sounded like someone was throwing quarters at the garage door and bricks on the roof. It was really, really crazy! It lasted about 15 minutes. When it was all over, I had a frozen piece of hail in the freezer to show Eric when he returns and a cold cheeseburger and fries on the table to eat.

The other meaning to the title of the blog is that the inspection went extremely well. The inspector said that this house was like night-and-day compared to the other one that he inspected for us. He was super impressed. I just hope that the hail didn't cause any problems with the roof. It's metal so it should be fine. So it looks like we're on to financing. We actually may come out with a house this time!

This picture if from the local news website, sent in by a viewer...