Spring Storm

Today we had our first real spring storm.  Thunder and lightning - one blast had almost no time between the flash and the crash.  A little before the skies opened up the satellite TV went out for a while.  Once the storm got going we had a short power outage.  Then we had a lot of hail.  An hour or so after the storm was over the leftover hail was still 1/4 inch to 3/4 inch deep on the deck.  It had been blown against the house and piled up along the wall.