Seize the storm

Yay, a storm!!!

For the lack of stormage around here lately, this came as a welcome relief from SDS (Storm Deprivation Syndrome) in June – JUNE OF ALL MONTHS.   Today is the average peak of tornadoes in South Dakota – at least we got something.   Started out in Brookings and watched the storms fire pretty quickly.   Amy and I got our stuff together, grabbed some Burger King and headed north to the Toronto exit where we took the right to Toronto and filled up with gas.   Should have been on full when we left Brookings but I had forgotten about that – whoops.   So that in part, contributed to us being in the storm as we followed it to the southeast.   Endless torrential rain and roaring pea to dime size hail escorted us to Hendricks, MN.

As we headed south on 271, we noticed a wind turbine that had one of the propellers snapped.   Part of it was flapping in the wind.   No debris was anywhere to be found.   We continued on south to Highway 14 and turned to head back home.   Pulled over on a gravel road to get the last few pictures, including the flowers.   It was a fun little chase and hey, it got the car clean.