Look at all the severe weather in U.S

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Anyone else here being effected or have been effected by the crazy storm moving southeast? It hit around Denver, Colorado and surrounding areas on the 8th, from there has moved into the states east of colorado here is a current image.


https://weather.com/storms/severe/news/severe-storms-southern-plains-mississippi-valley-mid-may-2017

Just rain here.A small town in the county above me got the freakishly giant hail.Pounded car windows out.The farmers are out checking to see if it pounded their cattle into hamburger.

We just got a few sprinkles here.

This sort of severe weather happens every year.

Especially in the southern and Midwestern parts of the US.

I wouldn't attribute this to anything but natural weather variation (in case anybody is tempted to do so).

The rains here last week washed out a bridge, tore up a bunch of pavement in a new parking lot for the local bike trailhead and washed-out a retaining wall and a bunch of fencing along the bike trail. And, there was about a foot of water in the street in front of my house. It was the first time I've been thankful the bank forced me to buy flood insurance!

Earlier, longer, and more-intense, across the whole country, imhblo, since last year's heatwave. Reservoirs refilled and overflowed, in minutes.

Yes stormy severe weather certainly does happen every year, but hail that big certainly is not normal. We do typically get hail in Colorado around this time but never have I seen it get that big I mean they were like baseball sized falling out of the sky for at least 10 minutes some bigger than that.

So yeah I don't think the stormy weather or hail is surprising just the severity of it, so was trying to find out if people in other states getting hit by this storm system are also experiencing it that severely. I mean regardless of why it's already caused tons and tons of property damage for like the entire Denver area and other parts of Colorado.

I mean just youtube, colorado hailstorm 5-8-2017 there is one of people sitting in their car as the windshield gets destroyed beyond repair with glass falling on them and their back window just getting entirely smashed out.

I am used to being outside, and before a single cloud is visible, I feel that the color of the sky changes, ever so slightly -- like during a brushfire -- when an unusual front is oncoming. As I hike, and plant, and build things, this is my signal, not be in a deep ravine, in a hole, on a cliff, or rooftop.

Animals are not stupid. I see birds drop whatever they are doing and land. It goes quiet. Uncommon insects land in the fruit trees. When I go inside, I find small, desert animals, that never usually get in the house.

We sometimes see nothing more that a humid, beachy, onshore flow, in the southwest, headed in the general direction of the East, ahead of your extreme weather events. But everything is wary, on-alert.

It's true that people say everyone will burn up in the summer. And, a new ice age is always supposed to start every winter. But, not all weather is common weather.

I did know the storm would hit before it did, but I certainly did not think it would drop hail that large...I can generally feel when a storm is coming on but not so much how severe it will be. But yeah if animals start taking cover or birds or all silent that is a good sign its not a light storm lol.

In the DC area we are getting the outer edge. Dark, dark, dark, rain, rain, rain. But no tornadoes, nor even normal opal sized hail yet ( much less baseball sized hail...Wow!).

Animals are a great indicator of what's to come.
The night of the tornado I was sitting on the porch watching the lightning storm.The frogs had been croaking all night,but then it all got quiet,like eerie quiet and still.Then I heard the tornado. Other neighbor's reported their dogs acting funny before the tornado hit,pacing and whining.One neighbor's dog refused to go in the upstairs bedroom at bedtime,and it always slept with her.The tornado blew all those windows out.
Spider will tell you when the storm is over,they go back to spinning webs.If snails start climbing up on steps and trees expect heavy rain.Ants bank up dirt before a heavy rain.
Some roosters are good forecasters,"if a rooster crows before bed,he'll wake up with a wet head."I had one that was better than the weather man till a possum carried him off.
Every iguana I've had,will hide before a bad storm.One was so accurate at forecasting severe weather in a 200 mile range that some friends joked that I need to call them with a weather alert when the iguana packed itself in a cubby for the day and refused to come out.Bad weather was on the way and the Ig was always accurate.

Some of the Ozarks got slammed by a thousand year flood event.
http://www.news-leader.com/story/news/l ... 101550868/

Yeah, it was so ridiculously brutal...I was in my house and heard the hail start...then I hear huge crashes and look out and freaking baseball sized and even bigger hail falling and shattering into icey shrapnel. I was thinking, this is going to destroy the skylights and sure enough it did. I am all running around the house trying to get anything glass or delicate out from under the skylights as well as trying to take cover for myself luckily no electronics or anything were immediately under the skylight that shattered plastic stuff everywhere. But yeah totallly home alone when it hit and it scared the crap out of me...I was still shaking like an hour after the fact because it was so shocking made it hard to text my boyfriend cause my hands are just all shakey and I am not usually so quick to panic but this was like so severe and there was nothing I could do about it except scream and yell and run around like a maniac trying to avoid being under the skylights or near any windows, which luckily no windows aside from the skylights got damaged. others were not so lucky..there is a video of someone watching their house windows getting shattered. Lol don't come as a tourist and be like 'oh what happened to your windshield.' some may be butthurt because their insurance wont fix it.

but the nearby mall got the brunt of it, tons of employees out of work and destroyed merchandise...sucks because I was just going to go get shoes there so I can have something durable but not as heat collecting as my doc marten boots. I mean I suppose I can see if the store has other locations, but yeah it's Off Brodway and it's like the Ross of shoes...the doc martens I got normally go for 130$ and I got them for 70 dollars, I mean one of the toes was kind of smuged which developed into holes which I ordered a leather repair kit to fix but for so much less than the normal price I can't really complain.