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[aart]

Just had a brief but furious rain/hail/thunder event.....now the sun's out.
More dark clouds moving in.

 

[Perris]

Ever since I've lived here (>20 years) there has been a little dip in a bit of the road nearby, such the car will bounce a bit coming out of it. Periodically the council have come along and we have traffic control for weeks/months, some work is done, they pack up, and there's still a dip but it's not as deep. I had always assumed it was water washing away the ground under the road, as the road runs along a contour of a sloping hill and whenever it rains hard, water pours off the hill and spills across the road in numerous places. The last repairs were in the spring, but it was less than a month before the dip returned big time and traffic control was back to limit vehicles to one side of the road only. Yesterday concrete barriers were installed (because locals had removed ordinary road closed signs apparently!) and the whole road's shut, because it turns out it's a sinkhole under there and it's now the complete width of the road! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-54368241
It needs a long detour to avoid this little bit of road; I do hope they fix it quickly. It will be wrecking school bus routes and timetables, amongst other things. But as someone who drives this road regularly, I'm also glad they haven't waited until there literally was a hole in the road down which some unsuspecting motorist could disappear

 

[aart]

The short but furious hail/rain/thunder event earlier was pretty neat to see.
But more hail later, in the full sun, made this rainbow(hailbow?) right in my backyard!! 8-0

 

[Meg-in-MT]

Because I'm a relatively frequent user of this site and I'll never buy a PFM, it seems a pretty simple thing for me to link through BYC to do my regular shopping on Amz. And I can pre-order my Flock Raiser from TS to pick up on my way home. Why not? The only thing that I don't like about it is the links won't take me to Amz Smile where I currently go to send my pennies to the ASPCA. Maybe I'll split my orders up.

This is what I was thinking. I also have "smile" to the ASPCA.

 

[Meg-in-MT]

Ever since I've lived here (>20 years) there has been a little dip in a bit of the road nearby, such the car will bounce a bit coming out of it. Periodically the council have come along and we have traffic control for weeks/months, some work is done, they pack up, and there's still a dip but it's not as deep. I had always assumed it was water washing away the ground under the road, as the road runs along a contour of a sloping hill and whenever it rains hard, water pours off the hill and spills across the road in numerous places. The last repairs were in the spring, but it was less than a month before the dip returned big time and traffic control was back to limit vehicles to one side of the road only. Yesterday concrete barriers were installed (because locals had removed ordinary road closed signs apparently!) and the whole road's shut, because it turns out it's a sinkhole under there and it's now the complete width of the road! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-54368241
It needs a long detour to avoid this little bit of road; I do hope they fix it quickly. It will be wrecking school bus routes and timetables, amongst other things. But as someone who drives this road regularly, I'm also glad they haven't waited until there literally was a hole in the road down which some unsuspecting motorist could disappear

Holy moses! That's incredibly dangerous. Glad they found that out before it swallowed someone whole!

 

[Meg-in-MT]

The short but furious hail/rain/thunder event earlier was pretty neat to see.
But more hail later, in the full sun, made this rainbow(hailbow?) right in my backyard!! 8-0

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Beautiful! "hailbow"

ETA: Is that a black eyed susan in the sheds background?

 

[aart]

ETA: Is that a black eyed susan in the sheds background?

Sunchokes.

 

[DobieLover]

The short but furious hail/rain/thunder event earlier was pretty neat to see.
But more hail later, in the full sun, made this rainbow(hailbow?) right in my backyard!! 8-0

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That's pretty cool.

 

[Perris]

made this rainbow(hailbow?) right in my backyard!

that's amazing! I've never seen one so close! lucky you

 

[aart]

I've never seen one so close!

I hadn't either....or one so low.
My jaw literally dropped, luckily camera was still in hand and on turned on ready to go.