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Hail Storm 2006 |
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| The onset of the damaging storm was so sudden no one
had time to prepare. A mile away, in a crowded shopping center,
thousands of people watched helplessly as their cars were beaten
into what looked like crumpled aluminum foil. Signs and lamps in the
parking lot were shattered. A rough count revealed over a thousand
cars were severely damaged (broken out windows, crumpled sheet
metal, even holes through hoods from hail up to four inches in
diameter driven by the high winds). I dragged the video camera out onto our small back porch and tape the storm as is shredded our gardens, knocked chips out of our roof, and flooded across our back yard. You can see some of the splashes as chunks of ice turned an unsodded area of the lawn into a sea of mud. Fortunately, we were on the very edge of the storm curtain, getting large chunks of ice toward the front of our property, but only golf sized hail and smaller at the back. Later, I took the opportunity to obtain pictures of our automotive paint damaged by the icy impact (top row of photos below). We were lucky that none of the larger ovoids of ice hit our vehicles. Click on photos to see larger version. I apologize for the quality of the pictures. The sharpness suffer because, in the excitement of the moment, while dodging rebounding pieces of ice, fragments of tree limbs, and shielding the camera from the worst of the blowing rain, I forgot to set the shutter speed up to 8000. |
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| Charles Frenzel | |||
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As Hail Fell from the Skies, we huddled on the porch and listened to the wind. |
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