Drive into a supercell core hurling 3–4-inch hail, and you soon shall understand misery and destruction. Fortunately this wasn’t mine, though I have experienced this very sort of crushing defeat on a couple occasions (16 May 1991 and 28 March 2007)—both at the hands of classic supercells that also produced at least 5 tornadoes each. Instead, this was in the parking lot of a La Junta motel where a friend was staying. This was not his car, but a stranger’s, presumably driven not far from some huge hail that hit parts of southeastern Colorado the day before. I shot this woebegone scene both by overhead LED illumination at night, and sunshine the next morning; the artificial light actually brought out the best detail and texturing, with the least glare.
La Junta CO (8 Jun 22) Looking down
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