Wild June Storm

Yesterday, we had a really amazing storm in Portland! It was so crazy. Sunny and in the 80's one minute, then torrential rains and tree breaking windstorms the next.

I wanted to share some of the wild pictures from yesterday:

These two show the sunshine turning to black clouds. It was so strange. It made it feel like it was 9 o'clock at night all of a sudden.
(all of these pictures were taken yesterday in Portland)

The boys loved the lighting and thunder. There were some magnificent lightning strikes. I didn't capture these, but they were featured on Oregon live, from readers around Portland:

It was so loud that it felt like you were outside in it, the rain came down so hard that it flooded the backyard in minutes. The boys ran out in the rain to play because it was still in the 80's and warm rain. Even KK in his nakey bottom half. (only after the lightning part was over)


The craziest thing happened to Joe on the way home from work. This on-ramp to the 84 that you see below, is the one Joe was taking to come home yesterday. He came upon this tree falling accident just after it had happened. The cars were waiting for the light to turn green and the tree fell on two, just in front of him. This lady's car took the brunt of it, here it is almost cleaned up, but when Joe was there it was still on top of the cars, and the people were okay, getting out of their cars. The cars behind him (including Joe) had to drive to the far left, under the tree top, in fact the first two cars broke off some major branches as they drove under. Joe said that is was so nice that they sacrificed their cars for him! This poor lady had to wait forever, until Trimet could free her car.
And that was our little excitement yesterday!!