Granizo enorme! (Huge hail).

Whoa, whoa...what a storm. I basically forgot the day I had at the estancia due to the insane weather on our way home. Yesterday I went with IES to San Antonio de Areco, which was fun. (The asado was not the best, but the museum on Molinas Campo was very nice). On our way back I immediately fell asleep and started napping. I was woken up by these flashes of something and when I looked to my right I noticed a lot of light in the sky. There was so much light, I thought it had to be a show or some concert. After a little bit and finally fully waking up I realized it was lightning! I love lightning and thunder storms so I moved to the other side of the bus and just started watching. It was like no other storm I had seen, only lightning bolts about every second with no rain and no thunder that I could hear. Can I call that an electrical storm? I wish I could have snapped some photos of the lightning, because it really was kicking ass, huge bolts basically would just keep the entire sky lit up.

After the show of lightning came some rain. It started out slowly, than grew and grew into torrential rain. After the rain came the small pieces of hail. I have seen hail many times and was accustomed to hail storms. However, this did not stop at small balls of hail. They soon became huge balls of ice, some got to the size of softballs. The roof of the bus sounded as if we were in a fight with the Gods. BOOM, BAM, BOOM, BAM. Almost shaking the entire area and denting every part the balls of ice hit. As we looked outside, it seemed as if all hell had broken loose. Every single car's roof was dented and damaged. Car's back windows and front windows were all broken. If they were not completely broken, the entire window was cracked. It was insane. I was in complete shock while watching this. I almost thought this may be what the end of the world is like. When people on the bus were freaking out, the bus driver (Pablo=saint) started telling us to just calm down and put our hands up against the glass windows on the right side. That was were the wind was coming from and our hands would diminish the vibrations created if the hail hit the glass. He was very calm and reassuring. As the 30 plus students put their hands up against the bus, we looked on as every car near us was damaged and broken.

After about 10 minutes, the hail subsided and it became a drizzle of rain. I was in a state of shock for at least two hours after and still can not really believe that I saw something so extreme. Argentina, you keep amazing me.