Weather and sinkholes and such

[prettygoodyear]

Last night bad weather was about to arrive. The sky dramatically turned from sunny and blue too an almost pitch black. I was hoping for a good, loud thunderstorm, but I guess it wasn't meant to be. There was some thunder, but nothing too loud. We did, however, get a lot of rain and hail. And I mean A LOT. So much so even that it created a pretty big sinkhole in our street and a tiny one in my garden near the foundation of my house. I didn't took pictures of the sinkholes (and the one in my garden was nicely fixed by my dad today). It was something else though. And I did take some photos of the approaching thunder clouds and rain.

There was so much rain that at one point the streets were filled with water. It tried to get away and that's when the sinkholes were created, I guess. It's no uncommon here though, because we live on the bottom of a former sea and we basically constantly 'sink' a few centimeters lower. Luckily our houses are build on a firm foundation, but the ground around it isn't. Which basically results in everyone redoing their garden every so many years.

This entry was originally posted at http://prettygoodyear.dreamwidth.org/275936.html. Please comment there using OpenID.