Hail!

We left the house dark and early and headed Murfreesboro, TN way to pick up Erin. Then we continued on to East TN State University (Johnson City, TN). We arrived there at 1pm Eastern time. We stopped and ate lunch and then dropped Erin off at her dorm. We did help her take her things in, met her roommate and then got back on the road. When we were on the western outskirts of Knoxville, Nathan called to say that they had just had a really bad hail storm in Tullahoma. The second picture shows some of the hail that the grandchildren saved in their freezer. The top picture was a pile of hail that was still on our walkway when we got home quite a few hours after Nathan called. Nathan reported that they could see a hole in the siding on the side of our house. We haven't gotten to check it out since another storm was rolling in when we got home just at dusk...so it is now dark and we can't see the damage. There are leaves down everywhere...especially green leaves. We crunched down the street in the car getting to our house...guess leaves, branches and probably still some hail hiding under all the debris. We did come through a bit of pretty heavy rain and it did hail on us for just a moment on our way home...but considering the strong front that was coming through, I think that we fared very well in our travels. God saw us through! Due to the storms Woody is driving to the prayer room this evening rather taking his usual walk. We drove roughly 600 miles today...that would have almost have gotten us to Bethesda, MD...and we never left the state of TN! We saw some beautiful leaves today. I attempted to get some pictures of the leaves...but I decided that the hail pictures...the last pictures taken today...needed to be tonight's picture. Good to be home!