I was going to post a few of my recent images from a Hawaii vacation, but this morning got startled awake by a tremendous hail storm complete with thunder and lightning which lasted for over 45 minutes and was very localized to our area only. Hail, lightning and thunder storms are unusually rare right here and so it was an oddity that one would happen in October and last so long. My head was on the big thunderheads floating down at the beach so I went down to take a few photographs.