I was driving home from work when the first wave hit. 60MPH headwinds, so I didn't even need to tap the brakes to slow down my Honda Element (which has the aerodynamics of a brick). Rain falling heavily, and horizontally. Then the trees started falling. So I pulled into the left lane of the Beltway (along with everyone else) so as to avoid being hit by a tree.Usually I worry about being hit by a truck on that road. The storm was moving so fast that by the time I got home it was mostly done.

A couple hours later the second wave came through. High winds, heavy rain, hail the size of canned hams of about 1 CM diameter. Near continuous lightning, like being inside a strobe light.

The third wave came right after dinner. Outside with a couple friends watching it come along. The sky was that weird green color, there was a very well defined wall cloud, and a bit of rotation. Very nervous making. Didn't see a funnel cloud though.

Fourth wave, around 8PM, was just a garden variety heavy thunderstorm.

Any of the four would've been a good memorable storm. All of them, one after the next, was impressive.

Office is about half empty, what with various people staying home to take care of the kids, or deal with property damage, or just cope with the power outages.

It's going to be in the upper 80's today, mid 90's tomorrow. With high humidity. Great time to be doing without AC... Perfect beach weather, however, and I will be at the beach this weekend.