Since tornadoes hit Kearney on May 29th, a number of other violent thunderstorms have blasted through Central Nebraska, sending us to our basement at midnight on one occasion, and leaving us in the dark on another. Those storms arrived with hail, whipped rain, and more damaging winds. Yesterday, our power was out for a few hours as even more limbs succumbed in yet another onslaught and pulled some power lines down as they fell.
Just a few mile south of town, baseball-sized hail battered a trailer court, while quarter sized hail only dimpled car bodies at another trailer court east of town.
I did find some astounding photos of that first toranadic supercell (scroll down), or the cloud formation that beat and blended trees and power-lines throughout Kearney. I still haven’t located any photos of individual twisters touching down. The sky is mostly blue today; hope that lasts for a while.
I have been trying to rebuild a blog that crumbled due to a combination of server software upgrades, but every time I get into that project, power outages have killed my connection. Maybe I can complete that task this evening.
