Rain and Tornadoes

The rain absolutely pounded the ground this evening. Apparently, there were reports of touch town within miles of my home. Luckily, all I got was some torrential rains and dime to quarter sized hail. There were two major cells that passed over me, and neither of them let go for more than a few minutes.

You can hardly tell from the video, but the rain was flying sideways down the river. I took a few other pics and videos with my actual camera, which I might attach to this post later.

Update

I got a few more things to add to this one... first, I got some video of the hail as the second cell passed over head. (The production value on this one is a bit better than the video from my Mogul above.)



I also got a few pictures of during the first cells passover, as it were. From what I understand, there was a tornado that either touched down, or came very close to touching down only a couple miles north east of me in Coon Rapids. I did hear that there was a good deal of damage done from the second cell in Hugo, MN, which is only about 35 minutes east of where I live.

I feel very lucky that there was no damage on my end of things, and everyone I know is ok, and that I was able to stand out in it with my daughter's Hello Kitty umbrella over the camera to take a few shots.