It was probably too unreal to be believed, except that this situation was very real. Predictions of possible thunderstorms warned of possible hail for last night, and not everybody was going to get any.

Consider me lucky. Last night around 1:40, I had awakened to a little thunder and lightning, but there was no rain where I was. I was looking at National Weather Service radars, and places around me got rained on, but it was what happened east and south of me...