Smaller than this:
Posted on 07/27/2010 3:45:44 PM PDT by DManA
Pictures of what may be US record hail that fell today.
Finally, hail sized hail.
Wonder if God pitched a no hitter.
Good freaking grief!!! Those things could put a hole through someone’s roof!
my apology for saying baseball sized earlier, that was my recollect of a top of the hour news thingy on abc news radio.. these are whoppers, almost melon sized, well small melonish anyway. ;-)
Smaller than this:
It doesn’t matter what they are compared to, they are monsters.
Can’t imagine the kind of winds it took to keep them aloft long enough to form.
These ice chunks must be more like snowflakes on steroids, all different and unique,, can’t imagine all the stuff happening inside a storm like that ,, pretty cool stuff.. except when it unloads on ya..
We used to get hailed in Minnesoda regularly, nothing anywhere that big thank goodness,, it can level crops and fences and livestock..
It fell in Vivian, SD on July 23. Had some earlier that same day at our house, but it was pretty soft, so didn’t do much damage. We’ve had some pretty bad hailstorms here and have had to replace our roof four times, but nothing THAT size.
Can’t imagine the kind of winds it took to keep them aloft long enough to form.
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this passed thru the area too earlier.. a big one per reports.
Tornado in NE corner of Montana kills 2 at farm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100727/ap_on_re_us/us_montana_tornado_11
Melon, yes, that’s about right. I couldn’t think of a fruit big enough. No apology nec. I just thought someone got confused.
Hail of Biblcal proportions.
Just got back from downtown SD and nothing.
Goodbye greenhouse, good bye windshield, good bye sky light.
That is not hail. That is incoming.
Hail and Damnation!
I had softball sized hail once. It destroyed cars...I mean totaled them. Bumpers, grills, windows, lights...all gone. Some houses had hail come through the roof and ceiling and land in their front rooms and kitchens. Trees were shredded. The hail bounced about 20foot when landing on grass, and disappeared when landing on concrete. You could hear them zip through the air like little meteors.
The flight was on July 20.
I was going to go there. But nawww..
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