I never ceased to be amazed by how little I know…
and how much other people know.
A very violent thunderstorm blew through the area. While that is exciting, it isn’t really news. After all, this is the Midwest.
But, have you ever heard of a “micro-burst”?
My youngest daughter, Cakes, introduced me to the term when I got home from work on Friday. It turns out that she learned about it at school but it wasn’t in science class.
She was in the middle of a student assembly when a school administrator interrupted the meeting and started reading through a fairly long list of student’s names. Their car windows had been shattered by a wet micro-burst! Trees were snapped in half…in a matter of seconds!
A micro-burst is a vertical column of air that acts like a sledgehammer. You can learn about them here.
I asked two co-workers if they had ever heard of it. They had. They described the nearly instantaneous destruction of houses and a fast food restaurant.
Thank God Cakes parked on the other side of the school!
