Back-to-Back hail days in Colorado, this time closer to home. Â After leaving James’s house to get dinner in Wheat Ridge, a developing thunderstorm rolled overhead. Â Heavy rain gave way to pea-sized hail and that was enough to get me on I-76 heading northeast toward Commerce City.
When I got off the interstate, I pitched camp off 120th and I-76 to wait for the main show! My original position was on a residential street off I-76 and 120th, but as the storm pushed slowly northeastward, I ended up about a mile east of my original location. Hail just over an inch in diameter, perhaps flirting with golfballs at their biggest, came down for 10 minutes in a fury.  Traffic in the area was nearly stopped at Commerce City was overtaken by several inches of hail!
The biggest mess came as rush hour traffic along I-76 was brought to a standstill! Â The overpass at 120th was completely filled with people taking cover from the massive hailstorm. Â I took some time to shoot as I had nowhere I could go. Â Emergency vehicles were everywhere as the storm began to push on. Â Hail as deep as 4 inches piled up in the street and took nearly an hour to completely melt away.
For the second day in a row, my video made television, this time opening the evening 9 Newscast.
