28 Replies to “Hardhat Country”

  4. Had the same thing in Riyadh in the mid/late 1980s……hail shattered skylights and even plastic strips (about 2″ wide) on lawnchairs.

  6. 1999, Sydney Australia . . . same thing.
    Destroyed roofs, cars etc.
    I was safely trapped in a pub and had to ‘wait it out”.
    Pity.

  8. Seen that twice now, 3 years apart never want to see it again. We’re in the storm line that runs basically from Caroline AB to Biggar Sk.

  10. Saw that in Grande Ligne, Que. when I was in school there. Broke windows, killed birds, messed up cars. Not a thing to be out in.

  12. The folks in the vid seemed fairly cheerful about it; they must have crop insurance.

  13. Kind of makes me shudder to think about the ONE HUNDRED POUND HAIL STONES it talks about in Revelations 16:21. Not too many places to hide when these are pounding to the ground. The reverberations on the land would alone shake everything apart. Not to mention trying to duck out their way!
    That would be nothing we have ever seen before!

  15. “A sunny Sunday afternoon quickly turned to a damaging event across Oklahoma City as a supercell tracked to the southeast from Northwestern Oklahoma, producing hail to the size of SOFTBALLS along its path. In what may go down as the costliest and most damaging hail storm in Oklahoma City history, thousands of cars and homes were damaged, with many windows and roofs completely destroyed.
    Not even the TV stations that alert us to impending severe weather were safe, as KFOR lost nearly all of their skylights as they were reporting on the storm, with hail and rain falling into the studio.”
    Some nice pics here:
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1279403/Oklahoma-hit-freak-hail-storm.html
    Never seen anything like it…that’s one bad ass storm!
    Cheers
    Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  18. We had a hail storm in our area in the summer of 1996 that featured hail the size of peaches. I think we still have a couple hailstones in our freezer. The only casualty of the storm in our yard was our outhouse. A farmyard isn’t the same without an outhouse.
    In 1981 we had a storm that featured dime sized hail, it completely destroyed all our vegetable crops and income for the year, imagine 20 acres of cabbage turned into coleslaw and stewing in 80F weather, and dozens more acres of other crops that suffered a similar fate.
    Our village actually had to have graders plow the roads that night because the hail was so deep.
    We have one of those weather radios now to warn of impending storms, tornadoes are also a threat here.

  19. wowzers!
    In the 70s I remember a hail storm that produced so much hail it looked like it had snowed. They were only golf ball size then.

  20. Al the basking fish in MB says “…imagine 20 acres of cabbage turned into coleslaw and stewing in 80F weather…”
    When I imagine that, all I think of is sauerkraut!

  21. Supercell thunderstorms are pretty powerful things!
    Here’s what it looked like on RADAR (time-sensitive link):
    http://vortex.plymouth.edu/gen_nids.cgi?ident=tlx&pl=n0r&yy=2010&mm=05&dd=16&hh=22&nn=00&size=1280×960&loop=yes1&zoom=&center=
    The can and do happen in Canada, too; in 2007 a similar storm hit Dauphin, MB, causing over $50M in damages.
    Here’s a page with its RADAR presentations:
    http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/environment/envirogeog/weather/aug92007.html

  22. @Eeyore
    There was enough sauerkraut for a decades worth of Octoberfests. You could smell it a mile away, until we plowed it under.
    The peppers looked like they had been shot with a 50 calibre gun, holes clean through them.
    Watermelons pock marked like golf balls.
    It was a very sad sight.

  24. During an early visit to Edmonton, golf ball sized hail came down. It damaged cars, riped the stone off shingles….broke street lights.
    However the worst hail I encountered on a visit to
    Chelyabinsk, Russia. Just to the east of the Urals, hail is common and feared. Chelyabinsk is the home of the biggest tractor factory in the world and also produces tanks. It got the name TANKOGRAD during WW2 due to it’s production of T34’s.
    I was in the building, when it started and the workers took cover—inside the building. Then some guard dogs came rushing in…some injured. I had a couple cuddled up with me under a welding table. The softball sized hail was raining down from the overhead windows.
    After it stopped I joined the somber party searching for the outside guards (tank factory) and dogs and dog handlers….no live ones…..
    In the district, there were severe livestock losses.
    Bad business….

  25. Awesome. Would have been even better if Al Gore had been forced to stand outside in that storm.

  26. As kids we always used to put the big ones(soft ball sized) in the freezer. This is not unusual in Edmonton or Calgary.
    Body shops do well here.

  27. I’m not sure which is more interesting, the size of the hail or the sheer stupidity of the people who shot the video.

  28. Pat @ 10:05 AM-
    “Saw that in Grande Ligne, Que. when I was in school there. Broke windows, killed birds, messed up cars. Not a thing to be out in.”
    Are you sure you aren’t confusing that with the goings-on after a Habs playoff victory??

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