Severe Lightning - Tornado Watch

North of Rockford, Illinois I saw some dark clouds coming towards me, then fantastic lightning streaking down. Before I knew it I was in the thick of it. The cars came to a stop and we sat there with very little visibility while huge hail fell on us and winds of 60 - 70 mph went whipping across the road with small branches from trees flying around.

The storm moved south and soon it was blue sky again, I am at a Flying J (drinking their bad coffee ) in Black River Falls Wisconsin and waiting out the rain that is coming down in torrents. It hasn't rained around here all summer and so this is all that rain saved up I guess.

It's so rainy I can't even feed the dogs, their food is up in the roof pouch.

LISTENING TO: National Weather Service Warnings - pre-empted the radio stations for the tornado warnings/watches.