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Back-to-Back hail days in Colorado, this time closer to home.  After leaving James’s house to get dinner in Wheat Ridge, a developing thunderstorm rolled overhead.  Heavy rain gave way to pea-sized hail and that was enough to get me on I-76 heading northeast toward Commerce City.  When I got off the interstate, I pitched camp off 120th and I-76 to wait for the main show!  Golfball sized hail came down for 10 minutes in a furry.  Traffic in the area was nearly stopped at Commerce City was overtaken by several inches of hail!  For the second day in a row, my video made television, this time opening the evening 9 Newscast.

I actually picked up this storm at its birth in Wheat Ridge.  I was grabbing dinner at Good Times when small hail began to fall.  I followed the developing storm along I-76 to 120th where I watched a repeat of Fort Morgan nail the northern side of Denver.  My original position was on a residential street off I-76 and 120th, but as the storm pushed slowly northeastward, I ended up about a mile east of my original location.

The biggest mess came as rush hour traffic along I-76 was brought to a standstill!  The overpass at 120th was completely filled with people taking cover from the massive hailstorm.  I took some time to shoot as I had nowhere I could go.  Emergency vehicles were everywhere as the storm began to push on.  Hail as deep as 4 inches piled up in the street and took nearly an hour to completely melt away.