Water falling from the Sky?

My mom an dad moved here to Phoenix in 1968, bringin us kids with 'em.
We came from the Great Northwest ..where 'tree' was a word to describe somethin that the first branch began about a hundred feet up.
Anything else was a 'bush' ..undergrowth .. minor stuff.

Ecologists useda say if the temperature was 10 degrees hotter the area around Portland Oregon would be a rain forest, .. Congo style .. I mean .. it rained a LOT.

There aint no 'trees' in Arizona.

Heck I even spent a year in Southeast Asia and know what a real monsoon is like,
..not this Phoenix weatherman wannabe bullshit they spout about a 'monsoon' ..
..personally I think every 'weatherman' in Arizona is an overpaid boob
..I mean, it's Hot ..or Hotter,
..with periods of Warm ..get a real job ya frikkin bums.

When I was stationed in North Carolina you could watch the wall of water
march down the street ..one side of the street would be sunny and dry,
..other side would be just bein blasted like someone tipped over a bucket.

Kathy and I would sit out on the porch an watch the lightnin show and the rain.

So ya .. I have seen the rain.
I know a bit about that whole water fallin from the sky bit.

Yesterday ..it rained in Phoenix.
First with a bit of peanut size hail, enough to leave a fine white frosting on the lawn
and make the neighbors go 'ooo - ahhh' ..they're from Mexico and I don't beleive they've ever seen hail.

I drove my son home because the water was so deep it was hittin the floor of the truck,
..and the truck has a bit of ground clearance, not one o' them lowered mickey-mouse wannabe trucks.

Really cooled off the day ..it was nice out.
About an hour later ..it frik-kin UNLOADED.
I mean it RAINED.
Water drops the size of baseballs so thick you couldn't see across the street.

Then the HAIL started.

It sounded like gunfire.

I got up and went out the front door ..
..it grew in intensity until even yelling I could not hear what Kathy was tryin to say
.. I had never seen Hail the size of golf-balls.
This was between golf ball and baseball sized..it was just BLASTING the leaves off all the trees,
..small branches rained down, it completely mulched the lawn
(hey ..no lawn mowing required for awhile..cool :)

It did a FINE job dimpling the hood and roof of the truck.
Surprised the heck out of me the windows stayed intact.

Ended up with a 'drift' of hail against the fence about a foot deep,
..a nice frosting of ice balls about 3-4 inches deep ..cars goin by (slowly)
sounded like they were drivin on bubble-wrap ..crunchy poppin sounds, loud.

The hail beat the *CRAP* out of everything ..just an awesome show.

Ima have to chat with the insurance guys when their phone isn't busy ..LOL.

-Frank