Summertime storms

We have had stormy weather this week. Tuesday afternoon, a big thunderstorm blew through, passing directly over us and bringing hard rain that continued off and on overnight, but the storms were much worse north of Blois and over toward Paris. Near Blois, power wires were downed, and thousands are still without power. In Paris a lot of street trees were uprooted. Tree trunks were broken in two. There were branches everywhere, news reports said. Several metro stations were flooded and there was a foot or more of water on many streets in the city.

Here in Saint-Aignan, things were a little calmer. I took the picture on the left when I went out for the morning walk in the vineyard with Tasha on Wednesday. We were walking and looking toward the west.

When I turned around and started walking back toward the house, this is what the eastern skies looked like. South of Saint-Aignan, in many areas there were hailstorms that caused major damage.

We were lucky here. The worst "damage" we had was a four- or five-hour internet outage yesterday morning.

I assume it was storm-related.