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Hailstorm...

Posted: 04 Sep 2015, 17:22
by petermcleland

Re: Hailstorm...

Posted: 04 Sep 2015, 19:17
by Dev One
You get some of those in southern France, vinyards get destroyed & car repairers make lots of money taking out the dents & replacing windscreens!
Keith

Re: Hailstorm...

Posted: 04 Sep 2015, 22:25
by petermcleland
I saw some similar in Germany with whole streets full of cars covered in dents!

Re: Hailstorm...

Posted: 04 Sep 2015, 23:04
by cstorey
In May 2009 we were at Spa in Belgium, and after lunch the sky went dark green ( no, it wasn't that good a lunch ) and we took refuge in a forest - not ideal in a violent thunderstorm but I felt it was the lesser of two evils - and we escaped the worst of this ( photographed about 45 minutes after it had fallen - and my wife does not have small hands . The stones had drilled holes the size of oranges through plastic chairs and tables etc . Curiously, about 35 years before we had an aeroplane ( Falco F8L ) which had to be reskinned after a similar encounter, in flight . Not an experience I would have relished

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Re: Hailstorm...

Posted: 05 Sep 2015, 00:31
by FlyTexas
Mother Nature at her best. Ain't she grand? :wall:

Brian

Re: Hailstorm...

Posted: 05 Sep 2015, 11:59
by Airspeed
That's global warming for you.
Causes extremes they say.
Then others say it's rubbish.
Guess we'll find out some day.