At 2pm this afternoon, the city of Arnhem and environs (I'm 3 miles away) were battered by severe thunderstorms. Lightning struck the overhead cabling for the electric trolleybuses, but it was the hail (1 inch hailstones) which stripped trees bare of leaves, caused flooding and temporary fog. My village, which lies draped across hills, saw spectacular scenes of tree-choked lanes, 2 to 3 inches of floodwater cascading down hills, carrying rafts and rafts of hailstones. Cars were damaged, and some windows were smashed. As I type, 2 hours later, banks of ice still lurk around. For a moment, the scene was reminiscent of winter.
The website for the local radiostation is inaccessible due to excessive demand.
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This is the archive of The Shell Gallery blog, which was active between 2008 and 2018. It is dedicated to the memory of my mother, who died in May 2008, and to that of my father, who passed away in August 2022.
The Watch Tower stands to the north, overlooking the open Heathlands
The Shell Gallery also refers to the island of Vlieland, which has zillions of shells on its beaches.
The Shell Gallery
This is the archive of The Shell Gallery blog, which was active between 2008 and 2018. It is dedicated to the memory of my mother, who died in May 2008, and to that of my father, who passed away in August 2022. The Watch Tower stands to the north, overlooking the open Heathlands
The Shell Gallery also refers to the island of Vlieland, which has zillions of shells on its beaches.
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- End of month
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- Two walks
- Photovideo Vlieland 20 June
- Photovideo Vlieland 19 June
- Veterans' Day
- Photovideo Vlieland - 18 June
- Vlieland photovideo 17 June
- Friday
- Photo video Vlieland 16 June
- Photo video 15 June
- Vlieland pictures - 14 June
- Tuesday
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- Map of Vlieland
- Vlieland, 15 June
- Clattering hailstones
- Vlieland, 14 June
- Hailstorm
- The Island
- Beach scene
- Returned
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- High and low
- Cooled down
- Carp
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2 comments:
My goodness....is this summer ??? Thankfully today has been nice and sunny although we are having very strong gale force winds which apparently is quite rare for this time of year....Love Sybil x
We had a hailstorm here too not too long ago. It was the same night the funnel cloud went OVER us. Thank God it went OVER and never touched down! I was afraid it had damaged my trucks and we didn't have insurance on them at that time. Thankfully, we do now! Wow! One inch! Sheesh! You have some really good pics in this entry (not to say you don't in other entries, that's not what I mean). I particularly like 14, 16, 24, 27, and 29. :-)
Thanks for sharing!~
Blessings!~
Susan
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