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Well, yet again I find a way to screw up recording during an amazing event. I can easily say this was the most amazing sky I have ever seen. I was thinking while watching it that I wasn't sure I'd ever see a sky that amazing again. Keep in mind these are vid caps from a digi8 starting at around 900k shrunk into a jpeg to around 10k or less. That and the fact that I totally screwed up the most amazing rainbow event I've seen. The south winds were very strong during this entire show. The precip was to the south of all this. Severe hail was being reported with a couple of the storms. I imagine during this rainbow the white stuff was wind blow pea sized hail. The sun was making it very bright. The way it would just dance in the air was simply amazing. Problem is I was trying out my new wide angle lens for the vid cam and didn't know it wasn't working right at infinity. It was way out of focus. I fix this problem much later. To top it off the couple few times I took the lens off I managed to get out of focus in doing so. So basically I didn't get any good video of this. The damn cam lets you spin the focus ring out to infinity but has no button to keep you there. I'm guessing while spinning the lens off I moved the focus off infinity, which happens all the time. I started the day north of Yankton, watching elevated sprinkles, getting very depressed at yet another squashed chase. Low level moisture was quite limited. I almost stayed home this day because of the lack of moisture. I figured since I was on vacation and it's been a pretty horrid one....and the fact that I was currently bored out of my mind, that I'd go ahead and go. I watched cumulus die over and over to the ne of the approaching sprinkles. Gave up after a while and started heading east to s of Sioux Falls. Drove south noticing my sprinkles were vanishing except for a very interesting storm, looking as though it was a right split from the sprinkles. Got way out of position for this thing that is now dropping south. Drove clear back to Yankton to drop south. It reminded me of my Ainsworth 2000 day. I thought for sure this thing was probably putting down a tornado where I couldn't see through the precip. I'll have to try and get some pics up of earlier, before this starts. So, there was almost give up number 2 if you count almost not leaving home. I dropped south, realizing that it was lining out from the the western storm and was VERY elevated. I was now in the precip losing the mammatus show I'd already noticed was starting. I was so torn at this point, whether or not to just get into the nastiness of these storms or to back track north to see the mammatus. And to think I almost went south saying screw the mammatus(that I thought would wind up not being too impressive). This sky was just flat out amazing.