Driving through the desert one doesn't expect to drown

[rabidsamfan]

Sooo, I'm driving down to Albuquerque for a wedding, and after a lovely side trip to a volcano near Raton, I notice that it's raining here and there. And pretty soon there are a few spatters on the windshield. And then a few more. And then somewhere, someone dumped over a Very Large Bucket and visibility dropped to really really not very far at all. Quite exciting!



Hail. Lots of Hail. Lots and lots and lots of hail. So much that the only thing to do was find a way off the highway and if you were lucky, hide under an underpass.

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Ignore the date. I somehow turned it back on and have to figure out how to turn it off again. Silly camera!

Comments

[piplover.livejournal.com]

Holy smokes! Glad you're safe, though!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

After the storm, the line of cars I joined was being led by a snowplow. A snowplow on the first of June! The hail was about two inches deep, but it worries me that the local highway people are that prepared...

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

EEep!

[shirebound]

Wow, that's quite an unexpected storm. I hope you're enjoying the Southwest.

[pebbles66.livejournal.com]

The weather is crazy in NM! Hope you're having fun!

*I've been to Raton a couple of times - very nice people!*

[catyah.livejournal.com]

Seriously?? WTF?

I looked at the picture and it took me a couple times of reading your post to get it through my head that the piles of white stuff is NOT snow in New Mexico in June, but hail... and somehow that's still hard to imagine.

I'm glad you made it through okay.

[gentlehobbit.livejournal.com]

Oh my... that *does* look exciting! Was that the "ice-covered highway" you mentioned in your post yesterday? If so, I believe there is a Des Moines in New Mexico, and Las Vegas wouldn't be that far away... I don't know what the Canadian river would be, though.

Scratch that. I just googled it and found an entry on a "Canadian River." I was thinking of an adjective (as, no doubt, you were expecting us to) when instead it was an actual name. Ha! How odd.

Bet you had fun putting together that little puzzle. :)

[methylviolet10b]

Yikes! That is utterly wild. I'm glad you're okay. :-)

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

The weather this spring has just been crazy. Who would expect a hail storm in New Mexico!?!

[i-o-r-h-a-e-l.livejournal.com]

Oh, take care, dear!

[lame-pegasus.livejournal.com]

Goodness gracious! Thank God you're safe!

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

*shivers*

[clevertoad.livejournal.com]

Er, should I ask how the Prius' paint job survived...?
Just glad you did - that looks wicked

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

It was squooshy hail, so the paint job is fine.

Fire and rain

[jcporter1.livejournal.com]

I've seen freak weather, but not in that quantity. Thats amazing.