We are experiencing the strangest storm tonight. We got back from the sandbar, ate dinner and were just gearing up to run some activities before the evening session, when a storm hit from nowhere.
First came the wind, five minutes of massive gusts blowing through the camp. Next came the most bizarre thing I have seen at camp. Hail. Not just any hail, penny sized ice balls in massive quantities. It came down so hard that it hurt your ears to stand in the kitchen because of the noise the ice was making falling on the tin roof. Everyone kept shaking their heads, saying, “This doesn’t happen here.”
I guess someone should have told the clouds that, because this picture is of the basketball court. It looks like snow, but it is thousands upon thousands of ice balls. In some places, where the rain usually drains off the roof, there are piles of hail over a foot tall (I would have taken a picture of that too, but the campers started making snowballs out of it before I could.)
Even as I am finishing typing this I see blue sky rolling in. Only in Alaska.
First came the wind, five minutes of massive gusts blowing through the camp. Next came the most bizarre thing I have seen at camp. Hail. Not just any hail, penny sized ice balls in massive quantities. It came down so hard that it hurt your ears to stand in the kitchen because of the noise the ice was making falling on the tin roof. Everyone kept shaking their heads, saying, “This doesn’t happen here.”
I guess someone should have told the clouds that, because this picture is of the basketball court. It looks like snow, but it is thousands upon thousands of ice balls. In some places, where the rain usually drains off the roof, there are piles of hail over a foot tall (I would have taken a picture of that too, but the campers started making snowballs out of it before I could.)
Even as I am finishing typing this I see blue sky rolling in. Only in Alaska.
4 comments:
Wow! Crazy.
Brian, was reading in Job 38 this morning, a departure from where I've been reading. Was doing a study on the word mind and landed on Job 38:36. Read the next verse (which seems appropriate) and then went back to 38:1 and read the entire chapter. Seems God is reminding us at many turns that He is . . .
Moe
Looks like the new outdoor covered play shelter was constructed "just in time". I think we said "rain" was the idea for building it. Would love to see more pictures on that and the dinning hall. Rod
Never thought the day would come that I could read about my favorite place on the web! I can't help but to smile looking at the pictures from first hill and the ever famous tube. Some of the best memories of my life for sure...Thanks for updating Bri. Know you and camp are constantly in my prayers. May God continue to do the work that only seems to happen on the banks of the Yukon River.
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