Holland wrote:
> Ok. I'm only 15 but I love studying weather. At around 4:35 p.m., a giant
> anvil-shaped cloud moved over the house across the road. It was moving
> towards the east. Then, it rained for almost five minutes and it hailed
> some. It supposedly hailed badly in Midland. I'm in Oakboro. Thunder and
> lightning was bad and I got some pictures (I think) of some forked
> lightning. The clouds then cleared up and there was a rainbow. Clouds
> cleared off totally, then they started builing again in the southeast. This
> brought more thunder/lightning/rain. The wind picked up and it blew almost
> 15 to 20 mph. The lightning was the worst thing. I've heard reports today
> of 2 people getting struck by lightning in upstate NC. It was a pregnant
> woman and a man named Kenneth Strickland. They're both ok from what I
> understood. We got at least 3 inches of rain here. It was the best storm
> I've seen around here ever. I've been here for nine years.
>
> Holland