I once saw solid columns of these pink, white and grey vertical beams blasting through the clouds one early morning in the valley outside my window. Loud thunder crackled as the beams flashed and then dumped heavy HAIL and RAIN Pounding down like buckets as if the sky was just blasted opened wide. It lasted a few minutes then it suddenly stopped and just left as if nothing had happened. The beams flashed several times before the torrential rain started.
